While many people's first reaction might be that this is just a silly proof of concept, I can say from personal experience that it will actually be quite useful.
I set up a Chromebox for my folks (got sick of providing Windows support). When my mom plugged in a USB drive with a short video, it wouldn't play without first being saved to Google Drive to be reencoded. Hopefully having a VLC app will fix the problem of ChromeOS only natively supporting a limited number of codecs.
But Uber is available in New York and the number of Uber drivers isn't regulated. I haven't heard anyone complain about the additional cars.
If the extra cars are an issue, then simply implement congestion pricing, an option that was not available when the medallion system was invented. Since an Uber car doesn't congest the streets any more than any other car, why treat them differently?
If the EU wants to mandate that certain URLs never get indexed, then why doesn't it simply handle the requests itself and then publish a list of URLs that are allowed to exist, but must never be indexed in a search engine?
That way Google gets out of the business of making these crazy value judgements and the Europeans can have perfect transparency. Unfortunately, I don't see the Europeans going for this as makes them look like an authoritarian regime.
Never done anything substantial in Scheme, but was probably my favorite language to learn in college, in the context of a function programming course.
I did not know there as a GNU interpreter. Will have to check it out.
Speaking of functional languages, someone told me that the XKCD website is programmed entirely in Haskell. True?
Think it is likely to remain too pricey for now. Too many price-insensitive business travelers willing to pay *any* price with the corporate credit card. Maybe the airlines can make it up on volume at a lower price point or figure out how to tier it properly, but seems like a good deal they have going now.
I think students tend to take far less away from having slides done out ahead of time. Seeing each step prevents students from simply reading ahead, getting a cursory understanding and then fading out. Seeing a teacher work out each step on the blackboard has always seemed far more engaging and instructive to me.
"banned the use of commercial social networking websites in US schools and libraries which receive federal IT funding -- therefore undermining much of the pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space"
How does banning social networking sites, which provide no educational benefit, hurting anyone's classroom, technology-focused or otherwise?
Has anyone noticed that Apple's hardwareis significantly more expensive than most Windows OEMs. Their big sell is their operating system which they then package up with their quality hardware (on which they take a very nice margin that most Windows OEMs only drea of). If they switched to Windows, they'd essentially be an overpriced Windows OEM.
In conclusion, you'd probably have to put a gun to Steve Job's head to move him from OS X to Windows.
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But will we be able to click the monkey in HTML?
While many people's first reaction might be that this is just a silly proof of concept, I can say from personal experience that it will actually be quite useful. I set up a Chromebox for my folks (got sick of providing Windows support). When my mom plugged in a USB drive with a short video, it wouldn't play without first being saved to Google Drive to be reencoded. Hopefully having a VLC app will fix the problem of ChromeOS only natively supporting a limited number of codecs.
But Uber is available in New York and the number of Uber drivers isn't regulated. I haven't heard anyone complain about the additional cars. If the extra cars are an issue, then simply implement congestion pricing, an option that was not available when the medallion system was invented. Since an Uber car doesn't congest the streets any more than any other car, why treat them differently?
Did you just call Lisp *performant*?
If the EU wants to mandate that certain URLs never get indexed, then why doesn't it simply handle the requests itself and then publish a list of URLs that are allowed to exist, but must never be indexed in a search engine? That way Google gets out of the business of making these crazy value judgements and the Europeans can have perfect transparency. Unfortunately, I don't see the Europeans going for this as makes them look like an authoritarian regime.
Agreed. The summary is fine, but the title is nonsense. Who is editing these stories?
This. "I'm kind of a nerd. I'm really into technology. I've got a ton of high-end Apple products"
Never done anything substantial in Scheme, but was probably my favorite language to learn in college, in the context of a function programming course. I did not know there as a GNU interpreter. Will have to check it out. Speaking of functional languages, someone told me that the XKCD website is programmed entirely in Haskell. True?
Think it is likely to remain too pricey for now. Too many price-insensitive business travelers willing to pay *any* price with the corporate credit card. Maybe the airlines can make it up on volume at a lower price point or figure out how to tier it properly, but seems like a good deal they have going now.
Colbert = so good!
Amen to that. This is getting ridiculous. Only a matter of time before we have more Drupal book reviews than Drupal users.
For nudity or sexual content?
Seriously though. What is the deal with this? How many people actually use this thing that I've still never heard of outside of Slashdot?
I had previously noticed that this works for all WSJ articles. Does anyone know why? Is Google paying the WSJ for content?
I think students tend to take far less away from having slides done out ahead of time. Seeing each step prevents students from simply reading ahead, getting a cursory understanding and then fading out.
Seeing a teacher work out each step on the blackboard has always seemed far more engaging and instructive to me.
"banned the use of commercial social networking websites in US schools and libraries which receive federal IT funding -- therefore undermining much of the pioneering work being done by educators in the e-learning 2.0 space"
How does banning social networking sites, which provide no educational benefit, hurting anyone's classroom, technology-focused or otherwise?
There is not acceleration being measured - just tilt. A subtle but important distinction
We have FIOS out in Westchester County, NY and it's incredibly fast. Definitely recommended if you have it in your area and have the $$$.
Has anyone noticed that Apple's hardwareis significantly more expensive than most Windows OEMs. Their big sell is their operating system which they then package up with their quality hardware (on which they take a very nice margin that most Windows OEMs only drea of). If they switched to Windows, they'd essentially be an overpriced Windows OEM. In conclusion, you'd probably have to put a gun to Steve Job's head to move him from OS X to Windows.
I guess I'm the young buck in the room.