For some reason, conservatives are equating or selling net neutrality as equivalent to the fairness doctrine. What is the connection? or is it just a talking point and they are paying back their supporters?
The radiation danger to individuals may be significant, but the real danger is to the TSA agents that work in close proximity to the devices 40 hours a week or more. It would be worth the money to put one of these in the office of director of homeland security.
Passengers don't have to even go through these devices if they don't want too. Plus they are easy to avoid. Most airports have multiple lanes and it is easy to just go to the line without the scanner. In my own airport CLT I can avoid it by going to the C checkpoint that doesn't even have the devices.
Why use a device (Kindle, iPad) that is optimized for consumption, when the most benefit comes from creating content. A computer is a far better educational tool, and eventually a better economic driver. While we picture the developing world as a bunch of mud huts, there is a significant population that live in urban settings, with internet access and electricity. They can use real computers to create web sites, download sophisticated open source software to run businesses, and take online courses in multiple subjects.
The thing about government and politicians is a small number of loud and aggressive people can change things. Sure you can give up, but open standards are good for consumers, good for every business that doesn't have a locked down IT product, good for transparent government.
Quit if you want to, but they haven't won.
The problem isn't the technology, it is how technology is used in education. We've replaced blackboards with white boards with overhead projectors with presentation projectors with smart boards.... all to do the same task. Replacing textbooks and typewriters/word processors with tablets that can do a lot of fun stuff in addition to being books and writing tools is a distraction. Changing the way we teach using technology, but introducing differentiated pacing of classwork (allowing students to be diverse while learning at their own pace), separating classroom management from learning, using on line classes to allow unique classes in every school, creating lifelong learning portfolios, tracking progress in real time, immediate remediation when trouble occurs, freeing teachers for more one on one time, etc.... Technology will fail if you throw it over the wall, but using it to change the way we teach has potential to break us out of the failed system we have now.
If you only count the United States and the desktop, the commonly touted market share numbers of Linux is 1-2%. Say there are 200 million desktops actively used in the USA. That means there are between two and four million Linux desktop users in just the United States.
Dell, HP and Lenovo don't put up " recommends Windows 7" on each page because they actually do recommend Windows 7. They do it because Microsoft pays them money to do it.
There are so many laws and twisty parts, that I'm sure everyone violates some law every day, it is only the lack of incarceration space and your own unimportance that keep us out of trouble. While Oracle sueing over Java is the surest way of destroying the language so people won't want to use it, at least Oracle is pulling its SCO moment against a peer like Google, and not building up a case against small companies that can't fight back.
The problem with the current system is you can't compare costs easily between airlines. Plus if you have a complaint your only option in most airports is to suck it up and do what they say. Even if they are clearly in the wrong. If you complain to vigorously, they involve security, which makes flying in the future more of a pain in the ass. They avoid the overbooking flight rules, by offering useless credits for future flights, that can only be redeemed for places nobody wants to go to at times nobody wants to fly. You can't walk away and not use them when poor service angers you. Tickets are mostly non-refundable, changing flights has a ton of silly rules, airline employee's have no incentive to keep you as a happy customer, so canceling you flight on one airline normally means to pay out the nose to file another equally poor option. Plus if you fly a lot, but with multiple airlines, you are still treated like cattle, because you don't have status. It is a broken industry, that needs to be disrupted, but high capital costs, limited access to gates and no viable alternative have left us no choice.
IBM offers a fully supported open client based on Linux. The Red Hat and Ubuntu versions are very mature, but there is also support for other distros. There is even a Mac client. While it isn't widely used yet, an IBMer can perform their job using it. Using Firefox and Symphony (IBM remix of OO.org) is just common sense, when you have 100K employees.
My first question on any study is who paid for it? That said, natural gas is a better alternative to oil and coal. The real problem with alternatives like solar, wind and to a lesser extent nuclear is the cost per Kwh. I can by electricity generated by coal, oil and gas between $1-2 dollars per Kwh. If I replaced my electric with solar panels and batteries, my cost would be $4-5 dollars per Kwh. Tax credits reduce that cost, but they are still being paid by someone. Natural gas and nuclear are excellent bridge technologies while alternatives are brought down in cost.
Diplomats adjust terms to keep from offending nations where people have little income and limited freedom. During the cold war there was the 1st world (NATO, neutral western Europe, Japan), 2nd world (Warsaw Pact), and 3rd world (everyone else). Late in the cold war, 3rd world was replaced by developing nations to counter the Soviet goal of creating Communist revolutions, and indicate the new US policy economic development (replacing the anti-Communist strongman policy). After the cold war saw the creating of the emerging economies (BRIC {Brazil, Russia [after deflating the CIA myth of a Soviet economy as large as the US], India, and China}, Asian tigers {primarily South Korea and Singapore} and former purgatory countries {South Africa [Aparthid] and Israel [peace treaty with Egypt]. The former 1st world is now called developed. So now we have Developed, Emerging and Developing. Of course people closer to the academic world will know the newest buzzwords.
Ikea was selling a $19.99 solar reading lamp that if you bought one, one was sent to Africa. Even if they didn't make a profit, that means the light cost significantly less than $15 dollars individually. Plus the LED is bright and lasts six hours easily.
The difference is the emphasis a particular culture places on an activity vs race. We notice these particular differences in sports and entertainment because it is in our faces most of the time, but academics, neighborhoods, food consumption, jobs, etc are all influenced by our culture.
As a white male southerner, I'm introduced to gun use, Protestant church, pig based barbecue, college football, etc. That's what I do.
Without teamwork, the majority of the team would have to do its own work. Now you find the dude in class that truly loves coding and technology, leach and get a good team grade. But what do I know, I was a poly sci major. Of course I've found that prisoner's delima, nuclear deterrence and brinkmanship are far more useful in IT than silly computer stuff.
They offer Internet Explorer for free undercutting Netscape's business model.
They offer Outlook with a pretty user GUI and integrated with Office to push users to ask for Exchange. An email program that's easy to setup the first 50 users, but a nightmare for large corporations.
Active Directory simplifies an all Windows environment, but mangles LDAP so you have to jump through hoops to add any other desktop to the environment.
Sharepoint is really cool and easy to setup until you have to set controls and expand it enterprise wide.
RDS is cool for simulating robotic programming and could be nice for education, but you'll end up with something that's easy to get started with, but a nightmare to really implement.
My first thought was that competition should be good for consumers, as another dominate player enters the market prices should be forced downward. Stealing the book is a natural reaction to the publishers oligopolistic practices.
O'rielly is pointing out the same dangers of the Cloud as Stallman, but in a reasonable voice. The question is how to preserve the DIY environment when hardware is sealed (see iPad) and software is ran on corporate computers. Will innovation be constrained or will the cloud be open enough to allow people to change vendors easily without total reworks?
It's highly unlikely they let anyone on the jury that has heard of Linux, must less understand what it stands for. Heck, they definitely never heard of SCO and unlikely heard of Novell. Maybe it'll come down to which side had the most people that look like native people of Utah (Mormons, not indigenous natives).
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For some reason, conservatives are equating or selling net neutrality as equivalent to the fairness doctrine. What is the connection? or is it just a talking point and they are paying back their supporters?
You have a choice between the scanner or an enhanced pat down. You don't have to go through the scanner, but the alternative poses no health risk.
The radiation danger to individuals may be significant, but the real danger is to the TSA agents that work in close proximity to the devices 40 hours a week or more. It would be worth the money to put one of these in the office of director of homeland security. Passengers don't have to even go through these devices if they don't want too. Plus they are easy to avoid. Most airports have multiple lanes and it is easy to just go to the line without the scanner. In my own airport CLT I can avoid it by going to the C checkpoint that doesn't even have the devices.
An expensive part of most IT budgets is people costs. Unfortunately, if your primary business is not IT, it is also the easiest one to cut.
Why use a device (Kindle, iPad) that is optimized for consumption, when the most benefit comes from creating content. A computer is a far better educational tool, and eventually a better economic driver. While we picture the developing world as a bunch of mud huts, there is a significant population that live in urban settings, with internet access and electricity. They can use real computers to create web sites, download sophisticated open source software to run businesses, and take online courses in multiple subjects.
The thing about government and politicians is a small number of loud and aggressive people can change things. Sure you can give up, but open standards are good for consumers, good for every business that doesn't have a locked down IT product, good for transparent government. Quit if you want to, but they haven't won.
The problem isn't the technology, it is how technology is used in education. We've replaced blackboards with white boards with overhead projectors with presentation projectors with smart boards.... all to do the same task. Replacing textbooks and typewriters/word processors with tablets that can do a lot of fun stuff in addition to being books and writing tools is a distraction. Changing the way we teach using technology, but introducing differentiated pacing of classwork (allowing students to be diverse while learning at their own pace), separating classroom management from learning, using on line classes to allow unique classes in every school, creating lifelong learning portfolios, tracking progress in real time, immediate remediation when trouble occurs, freeing teachers for more one on one time, etc.... Technology will fail if you throw it over the wall, but using it to change the way we teach has potential to break us out of the failed system we have now.
A 1-2% usage rate equals ~three million desktop users in the United States.
If you only count the United States and the desktop, the commonly touted market share numbers of Linux is 1-2%. Say there are 200 million desktops actively used in the USA. That means there are between two and four million Linux desktop users in just the United States.
Dell, HP and Lenovo don't put up " recommends Windows 7" on each page because they actually do recommend Windows 7. They do it because Microsoft pays them money to do it.
Snow White was layed out by the poison apple, Sleeping Beauty was done in by the needle of a spinning wheel.
There are so many laws and twisty parts, that I'm sure everyone violates some law every day, it is only the lack of incarceration space and your own unimportance that keep us out of trouble. While Oracle sueing over Java is the surest way of destroying the language so people won't want to use it, at least Oracle is pulling its SCO moment against a peer like Google, and not building up a case against small companies that can't fight back.
The problem with the current system is you can't compare costs easily between airlines. Plus if you have a complaint your only option in most airports is to suck it up and do what they say. Even if they are clearly in the wrong. If you complain to vigorously, they involve security, which makes flying in the future more of a pain in the ass. They avoid the overbooking flight rules, by offering useless credits for future flights, that can only be redeemed for places nobody wants to go to at times nobody wants to fly. You can't walk away and not use them when poor service angers you. Tickets are mostly non-refundable, changing flights has a ton of silly rules, airline employee's have no incentive to keep you as a happy customer, so canceling you flight on one airline normally means to pay out the nose to file another equally poor option. Plus if you fly a lot, but with multiple airlines, you are still treated like cattle, because you don't have status. It is a broken industry, that needs to be disrupted, but high capital costs, limited access to gates and no viable alternative have left us no choice.
IBM offers a fully supported open client based on Linux. The Red Hat and Ubuntu versions are very mature, but there is also support for other distros. There is even a Mac client. While it isn't widely used yet, an IBMer can perform their job using it. Using Firefox and Symphony (IBM remix of OO.org) is just common sense, when you have 100K employees.
My first question on any study is who paid for it? That said, natural gas is a better alternative to oil and coal. The real problem with alternatives like solar, wind and to a lesser extent nuclear is the cost per Kwh. I can by electricity generated by coal, oil and gas between $1-2 dollars per Kwh. If I replaced my electric with solar panels and batteries, my cost would be $4-5 dollars per Kwh. Tax credits reduce that cost, but they are still being paid by someone. Natural gas and nuclear are excellent bridge technologies while alternatives are brought down in cost.
Diplomats adjust terms to keep from offending nations where people have little income and limited freedom. During the cold war there was the 1st world (NATO, neutral western Europe, Japan), 2nd world (Warsaw Pact), and 3rd world (everyone else). Late in the cold war, 3rd world was replaced by developing nations to counter the Soviet goal of creating Communist revolutions, and indicate the new US policy economic development (replacing the anti-Communist strongman policy). After the cold war saw the creating of the emerging economies (BRIC {Brazil, Russia [after deflating the CIA myth of a Soviet economy as large as the US], India, and China}, Asian tigers {primarily South Korea and Singapore} and former purgatory countries {South Africa [Aparthid] and Israel [peace treaty with Egypt]. The former 1st world is now called developed. So now we have Developed, Emerging and Developing. Of course people closer to the academic world will know the newest buzzwords.
Ikea was selling a $19.99 solar reading lamp that if you bought one, one was sent to Africa. Even if they didn't make a profit, that means the light cost significantly less than $15 dollars individually. Plus the LED is bright and lasts six hours easily.
The difference is the emphasis a particular culture places on an activity vs race. We notice these particular differences in sports and entertainment because it is in our faces most of the time, but academics, neighborhoods, food consumption, jobs, etc are all influenced by our culture. As a white male southerner, I'm introduced to gun use, Protestant church, pig based barbecue, college football, etc. That's what I do.
Without teamwork, the majority of the team would have to do its own work. Now you find the dude in class that truly loves coding and technology, leach and get a good team grade. But what do I know, I was a poly sci major. Of course I've found that prisoner's delima, nuclear deterrence and brinkmanship are far more useful in IT than silly computer stuff.
Netscape charged for it's browser until MS started bundling IE with Windows.
They offer Internet Explorer for free undercutting Netscape's business model. They offer Outlook with a pretty user GUI and integrated with Office to push users to ask for Exchange. An email program that's easy to setup the first 50 users, but a nightmare for large corporations. Active Directory simplifies an all Windows environment, but mangles LDAP so you have to jump through hoops to add any other desktop to the environment. Sharepoint is really cool and easy to setup until you have to set controls and expand it enterprise wide. RDS is cool for simulating robotic programming and could be nice for education, but you'll end up with something that's easy to get started with, but a nightmare to really implement.
My first thought was that competition should be good for consumers, as another dominate player enters the market prices should be forced downward. Stealing the book is a natural reaction to the publishers oligopolistic practices.
O'rielly is pointing out the same dangers of the Cloud as Stallman, but in a reasonable voice. The question is how to preserve the DIY environment when hardware is sealed (see iPad) and software is ran on corporate computers. Will innovation be constrained or will the cloud be open enough to allow people to change vendors easily without total reworks?
It's highly unlikely they let anyone on the jury that has heard of Linux, must less understand what it stands for. Heck, they definitely never heard of SCO and unlikely heard of Novell. Maybe it'll come down to which side had the most people that look like native people of Utah (Mormons, not indigenous natives).