Have you seen the kids walking around with their $200 iPod Touches and iPhones? I'm talking about little kids, like elementary school kids. If they can keep those together, a $25.00 "computer" about 1/4 the size shouldn't be a problem. You just have to make it seem important enough to them that they don't want to lose it. Throw a half-eaten apple on the front and I'm sure it'll be gobbled up.
FTFA - Each one of these devices has an SDCard slot for storing data. This would provide each child with their "own" data they can easily transport and access. Outfitting a computer lab with $25.00 per child computers versus purchasing an outright PC to fill it might be a cheaper alternative. Maintenance should also be lower. In addition, this may provide some energy savings for the school if they are only powering an HDMI monitor and not an entire PC as well.
As to yor suggestion that they purchase everyone a USB flash drive, essentially it is a USB flash drive with a computer built in.
Doesn't this have the possibility of replacing the computers in the computer lab? A PC for every kid that is their own person machine. All they do is plug it in when they go into the lab. Of course, troubleshooting problems on these things might be a nightmare, but you'll have that.
Indeed. The summary mentioned "That means it will handle web browsing..." and the pic FTA showed Firefox on the screen. Unless it has a tiny wifi receiver in it, I don't know how it's connecting.
Of the apps I've used so far on my tablets, a Galaxy Tab and an Archos 70 (both running Android 2.2), I haven't encountered an issue when using an app written for the phone. That's not to say I probably wouldn't run into one if I looked for awhile, but the games and productivity apps I've used seem to scale very well between the two.
I can't compare to the iPad scaling, I assumed it worked the same way. Reading your comment above, I guess it doesn't.
I guess I don't understand the purpose of this study. Granted it will probably identify if there is NEVER a point in time in the day when your internet connection reaches the advertised speed, but ideally I would like to see them do something about traffic speeds during normal hours. I don't care if my internet connection reaches above (or beyond) the advertised rates between the hours of 2:00am EST and 6:00am EST or 1:00pm EST to 4:00pm EST. I want it to perform at its advertised level when I'm home or awake.
Maybe it does and only reports during those idle periods or am I missing something?
I'm not exactly versed on what is considered to be a "heavy downloader". I can see if you have a ton of BitTorrent traffic constantly traveling on your connection, but what about video game playing, streaming movies, etc. That's not 24/7, but it is generally during peak traffic. Isn't that when you would want to run your tests?
This is also a way to force consumers to contribute to auto manufacturer revenue. They force you to buy a new car because driving the one you have costs too much (getting dinged at the pump and dinged by the miles). So you have to buy a hybrid (or electric) vehicle to save yourself some money. Auto profits go up, big business wins. Next step is the government stating "well, now that no one is really buying that much gas, we are going to have to go ahead and ask you to pay more per mile for your car." So in the end, you're still taxed to death and have been forced to buy a new vehicle.
Of course, this will have an equally declining effect on the price of oil and Big Texas profits. Whom I'm sure will not go quiet into the night.
It's one of those things you have to see yourself to become somewhat convinced. I have the same cynical eye whenever I watch any of these ghost hunter shows and more often than naught, I think they conveniently have things happen right when you would expect them. Their EVP readings are usually inaudible and you'll hear what may be a gentle breeze and they'll replay it 5x over saying "Did you hear them say "Look out!"" If you try REALLY hard you can convince yourself you hear it too.
I've experienced and witnessed things that lead me to believe something else (be it ghosts or otherwise) has influenced the environment around me. We bought a house in Pittsburgh where we were 100% convinced something supernatural was going on. Footsteps in the hallways at night, loud crashes being heard in an adjoining room (only to find nothing disturbed), and both my wife and I have seen apparitions (one of which chased my wife). All these events continued to happen for well over a year, until one day we decided to change the location of our living room and dining room. After we rearranged the furniture, we never saw or heard anything again.
I don't know how to explain it, I just know what we've experienced. These things happened at night as well as during the day. If I had to guess, I'd say after 4pm or so. They were always random, which is why I really have a hard time believing much of anything in these ghost hunter shows. We didn't just decide one day we were going to stay up late and caught ghosts. It didn't work that way.
We picked up the 70 and are enjoying it. We like the 7" form factor and it fits us perfectly for web-browsing or using recipes in the kitchen. The Archos are nice because they also have a built-in kickstand.
If Cox is found to have practiced engineering without a license, Ritter said, the likely action would be a letter telling him not to do it again."
Don't you have to accept money or be involved in some sort of contractual obligation to risk something like this? Nothing in the article indicates that Mr. Cox misled anyone. The only thing he did, from what I read, was put together a detailed OPINION of reasoning why these stop lights are needed. Granted, they hired an engineer and the engineer said it was not needed, but why is performing your own research a crime?
This is why you start high. They make 30% while they can, then settle for 15%. It appears that they are reducing their take, to appease their customers - when in reality they are just adjusting their take down to their originally planned percentage.
I think this is a great thing and it's nice to see something like this being given a chance. However, I wonder how long this thing is going to be functional inside of a school. With kids in the halls traveling between classes, weather, random bullying, how long will it take before this thing is broken? I can't imagine it will survive being knocked over more than a couple times.
The Kinect isn't all bad. Party games are fun and I could see it having a definite market. I think it will need a handheld peripheral to accommodate shooting, but that's nothing more than a battery and a button.
I'm interested to see what they do for Steel Battalion and the Star Wars game.
As a sidenote, you mentioned general gaming catagories (FPS, Fighter, Platformers). Perhaps this is the official beginning of a new genre?
I'm not saying Facebook will be immortal. What I am saying is that I do not foresee Facebook being a company that has a lifespan of 10 years or less. I'm sure there will be something else flashy in the future, but Facebook has entrenched itself very well into the daily life of the majority of Americans online.
They have taken measures to insure they will not fall out of style quickly, leading them to have a long term business model. Not immortal.
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Is Facebook a viable long term business model ?
All internet companies are butterflies. Something newer and hipper will come around.
Facebook too will one day go the way of MySpace and LiveJournal.
(And Google will one day go the way of Altavista, Hotbot and ftpsearch.ntnu.no)
Normally I would agree, but I don't think so in this case. Facebook has done one thing well, and it's appealed to the masses across all demographics. MySpace was too quirky, convoluted, etc. Facebook has kept things relatively simple. As long as they don't result in mass bank fraud due to users' personal information being listed, they have a pretty safe model.
Facebook also does not appear to be stagnating the way MySpace did when it thought it was the only option. They have a pretty good partnership with Zynga that supplies gimmicky, addictive games for Joe Public and they continue to add new "features." Whether those features are beneficial to the end-user or Facebook itself, it still comes across as innovating.
I think companies have started to wisen-up after the dot-com burst. Investors are also going to be prone to stay with companies that have shown some resilience in the downed economy.
Have you used a netbook? The keyboard is incredibly small the point that your hands have to fight for position. The screens are oblong and require that you squint to see exactly what is happening on your screen. When is the last time you used one hand to operate a netbook?
A tablet allows you hold it using one hand, it's lightweight, and writing an email is simple using Swype. You can hold it at a comfortable distance and don't require a desk or table to operate it.
Believe it or not, some companies actually develop applications based on their employee needs and the form factor of a 7" tablet is perfect for someone who is mobile.
Although they work, using a 7" tablet screen is a lot easier than using a netbook. We have been testing the Galaxy Tab here for a few weeks now and it shows a lot more potential for on the road use than the netbooks we have in the field.
The only problem is the Tab's price point, which is too high. I'm very interested in the new Archos tablets - if only they came with a possible 3G/4G connection in addition to the wifi.
Call me Mr. Conspiracy Theory, but I would not be surprised if the US government released these cables to Wikileaks and this whole Assange witch hunt is all smoke.
From what I've heard so far, nothing of any substance has been "leaked" and if anything, it is more indicative of how much the US is trying to police the world. Something that everyone already knows.
Where's the cable that involves an assassination cover-up? How about one where the US bribes a smaller country to do some of its dirty work? The closest thing I've read was some dialog with Yemen where the local government said they would take ownership of some US bombing.
I guess I was hoping for a little more out of these things.
This is why there are "privacy" settings on Facebook. This person probably had their profile open to everyone and allowed anyone to see their friends list. It wouldn't take too long to locate someone with the same last name.
Does this also control you from harming yourself in normal settings? Here are a few examples:
Getting into a shower and being tentative of the temperature. If you do not have any fear, would it even cross your mind to test the temperature or would you just step in and burn yourself?
In a military setting, would you see a lot more accidental shootings by individuals who do not turn on the safety of their gun? You usually turn the safety on to not misfire the weapon and accidentally shoot someone (ie. afraid of killing someone or afraid of the consequences of shooting someone)
Are these choices fear based? How do you differentiate between someone walking into a battlefield and not being afraid of combat versus someone burning or hurting themselves in normal daily life.
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I guess you could do that. It might be a little easier to lose an SD card than a USB stick, but whatever works.
Have you seen the kids walking around with their $200 iPod Touches and iPhones? I'm talking about little kids, like elementary school kids. If they can keep those together, a $25.00 "computer" about 1/4 the size shouldn't be a problem. You just have to make it seem important enough to them that they don't want to lose it. Throw a half-eaten apple on the front and I'm sure it'll be gobbled up.
FTFA - Each one of these devices has an SDCard slot for storing data. This would provide each child with their "own" data they can easily transport and access. Outfitting a computer lab with $25.00 per child computers versus purchasing an outright PC to fill it might be a cheaper alternative. Maintenance should also be lower. In addition, this may provide some energy savings for the school if they are only powering an HDMI monitor and not an entire PC as well.
As to yor suggestion that they purchase everyone a USB flash drive, essentially it is a USB flash drive with a computer built in.
Doesn't this have the possibility of replacing the computers in the computer lab? A PC for every kid that is their own person machine. All they do is plug it in when they go into the lab. Of course, troubleshooting problems on these things might be a nightmare, but you'll have that.
Indeed. The summary mentioned "That means it will handle web browsing..." and the pic FTA showed Firefox on the screen. Unless it has a tiny wifi receiver in it, I don't know how it's connecting.
Of the apps I've used so far on my tablets, a Galaxy Tab and an Archos 70 (both running Android 2.2), I haven't encountered an issue when using an app written for the phone. That's not to say I probably wouldn't run into one if I looked for awhile, but the games and productivity apps I've used seem to scale very well between the two.
I can't compare to the iPad scaling, I assumed it worked the same way. Reading your comment above, I guess it doesn't.
I guess I don't understand the purpose of this study. Granted it will probably identify if there is NEVER a point in time in the day when your internet connection reaches the advertised speed, but ideally I would like to see them do something about traffic speeds during normal hours. I don't care if my internet connection reaches above (or beyond) the advertised rates between the hours of 2:00am EST and 6:00am EST or 1:00pm EST to 4:00pm EST. I want it to perform at its advertised level when I'm home or awake.
Maybe it does and only reports during those idle periods or am I missing something?
I'm not exactly versed on what is considered to be a "heavy downloader". I can see if you have a ton of BitTorrent traffic constantly traveling on your connection, but what about video game playing, streaming movies, etc. That's not 24/7, but it is generally during peak traffic. Isn't that when you would want to run your tests?
This is also a way to force consumers to contribute to auto manufacturer revenue. They force you to buy a new car because driving the one you have costs too much (getting dinged at the pump and dinged by the miles). So you have to buy a hybrid (or electric) vehicle to save yourself some money. Auto profits go up, big business wins. Next step is the government stating "well, now that no one is really buying that much gas, we are going to have to go ahead and ask you to pay more per mile for your car." So in the end, you're still taxed to death and have been forced to buy a new vehicle.
Of course, this will have an equally declining effect on the price of oil and Big Texas profits. Whom I'm sure will not go quiet into the night.
It's one of those things you have to see yourself to become somewhat convinced. I have the same cynical eye whenever I watch any of these ghost hunter shows and more often than naught, I think they conveniently have things happen right when you would expect them. Their EVP readings are usually inaudible and you'll hear what may be a gentle breeze and they'll replay it 5x over saying "Did you hear them say "Look out!"" If you try REALLY hard you can convince yourself you hear it too.
I've experienced and witnessed things that lead me to believe something else (be it ghosts or otherwise) has influenced the environment around me. We bought a house in Pittsburgh where we were 100% convinced something supernatural was going on. Footsteps in the hallways at night, loud crashes being heard in an adjoining room (only to find nothing disturbed), and both my wife and I have seen apparitions (one of which chased my wife). All these events continued to happen for well over a year, until one day we decided to change the location of our living room and dining room. After we rearranged the furniture, we never saw or heard anything again.
I don't know how to explain it, I just know what we've experienced. These things happened at night as well as during the day. If I had to guess, I'd say after 4pm or so. They were always random, which is why I really have a hard time believing much of anything in these ghost hunter shows. We didn't just decide one day we were going to stay up late and caught ghosts. It didn't work that way.
We picked up the 70 and are enjoying it. We like the 7" form factor and it fits us perfectly for web-browsing or using recipes in the kitchen. The Archos are nice because they also have a built-in kickstand.
This is probably true. The Galaxy Tab required the same thing - only there wasn't an ad to disclose it.
If Cox is found to have practiced engineering without a license, Ritter said, the likely action would be a letter telling him not to do it again."
Don't you have to accept money or be involved in some sort of contractual obligation to risk something like this? Nothing in the article indicates that Mr. Cox misled anyone. The only thing he did, from what I read, was put together a detailed OPINION of reasoning why these stop lights are needed. Granted, they hired an engineer and the engineer said it was not needed, but why is performing your own research a crime?
This is why you start high. They make 30% while they can, then settle for 15%. It appears that they are reducing their take, to appease their customers - when in reality they are just adjusting their take down to their originally planned percentage.
I think this is a great thing and it's nice to see something like this being given a chance. However, I wonder how long this thing is going to be functional inside of a school. With kids in the halls traveling between classes, weather, random bullying, how long will it take before this thing is broken? I can't imagine it will survive being knocked over more than a couple times.
The Kinect isn't all bad. Party games are fun and I could see it having a definite market. I think it will need a handheld peripheral to accommodate shooting, but that's nothing more than a battery and a button.
I'm interested to see what they do for Steel Battalion and the Star Wars game.
As a sidenote, you mentioned general gaming catagories (FPS, Fighter, Platformers). Perhaps this is the official beginning of a new genre?
I'm not saying Facebook will be immortal. What I am saying is that I do not foresee Facebook being a company that has a lifespan of 10 years or less. I'm sure there will be something else flashy in the future, but Facebook has entrenched itself very well into the daily life of the majority of Americans online.
They have taken measures to insure they will not fall out of style quickly, leading them to have a long term business model. Not immortal.
Is Facebook a viable long term business model ?
All internet companies are butterflies. Something newer and hipper will come around. Facebook too will one day go the way of MySpace and LiveJournal.
(And Google will one day go the way of Altavista, Hotbot and ftpsearch.ntnu.no)
Normally I would agree, but I don't think so in this case. Facebook has done one thing well, and it's appealed to the masses across all demographics. MySpace was too quirky, convoluted, etc. Facebook has kept things relatively simple. As long as they don't result in mass bank fraud due to users' personal information being listed, they have a pretty safe model.
Facebook also does not appear to be stagnating the way MySpace did when it thought it was the only option. They have a pretty good partnership with Zynga that supplies gimmicky, addictive games for Joe Public and they continue to add new "features." Whether those features are beneficial to the end-user or Facebook itself, it still comes across as innovating.
I think companies have started to wisen-up after the dot-com burst. Investors are also going to be prone to stay with companies that have shown some resilience in the downed economy.
Have you used a netbook? The keyboard is incredibly small the point that your hands have to fight for position. The screens are oblong and require that you squint to see exactly what is happening on your screen. When is the last time you used one hand to operate a netbook?
A tablet allows you hold it using one hand, it's lightweight, and writing an email is simple using Swype. You can hold it at a comfortable distance and don't require a desk or table to operate it.
Believe it or not, some companies actually develop applications based on their employee needs and the form factor of a 7" tablet is perfect for someone who is mobile.
Although they work, using a 7" tablet screen is a lot easier than using a netbook. We have been testing the Galaxy Tab here for a few weeks now and it shows a lot more potential for on the road use than the netbooks we have in the field.
The only problem is the Tab's price point, which is too high. I'm very interested in the new Archos tablets - if only they came with a possible 3G/4G connection in addition to the wifi.
Call me Mr. Conspiracy Theory, but I would not be surprised if the US government released these cables to Wikileaks and this whole Assange witch hunt is all smoke.
From what I've heard so far, nothing of any substance has been "leaked" and if anything, it is more indicative of how much the US is trying to police the world. Something that everyone already knows.
Where's the cable that involves an assassination cover-up? How about one where the US bribes a smaller country to do some of its dirty work? The closest thing I've read was some dialog with Yemen where the local government said they would take ownership of some US bombing.
I guess I was hoping for a little more out of these things.
This is why there are "privacy" settings on Facebook. This person probably had their profile open to everyone and allowed anyone to see their friends list. It wouldn't take too long to locate someone with the same last name.
Does this also control you from harming yourself in normal settings? Here are a few examples:
Getting into a shower and being tentative of the temperature. If you do not have any fear, would it even cross your mind to test the temperature or would you just step in and burn yourself?
In a military setting, would you see a lot more accidental shootings by individuals who do not turn on the safety of their gun? You usually turn the safety on to not misfire the weapon and accidentally shoot someone (ie. afraid of killing someone or afraid of the consequences of shooting someone)
Are these choices fear based? How do you differentiate between someone walking into a battlefield and not being afraid of combat versus someone burning or hurting themselves in normal daily life.
You realize you just gave him another idea? Get ready for "Star Wars Episodes I-VI: End of the World Edition"
but he googled it... that's enough these days, right?