Chances are, I would trust to the experience of my friends and relatives in their experiences of particular schools.
Experience in the UK would suggest that once metrics become well known, schools/hospitals/whoever work to manipulate the results. Surveys of actual recent experience work much better.
Experience tells us that when politicians start making demands for highly expensive development/construction efforts, they've usually been bought (quite literally) by the industry or specific businesses involved.
Now we know who's offering to fund Newt's campaign...
Touch-screen hand-held devices require radically different metaphors to desktop/laptop computing. They are much more context-sensitive in terms of how and where they are used, and in the amount of attention the that user can give the UI. If Canonical can actually address this and are innovative, that would be great.
Unfortunately, looking at how Canonical are trying to force (other people's) mobile metaphors onto the Desktop, I seriously doubt their ability to build a better UI experience for mobile users. They don't even get that mobile and desktop computing is like chalk and cheese, let alone express any real innovation.
You reckon? I know four people now who have bought the playbooks since Future Shop here in Canada started discounting. And none of them are techies. There seems to be a price-point for tablets, and the RIM discount is pretty much there I think.
It's also interesting to hear their opinions - they all love it, but one is complaining about lack of Skype (as people on here are).
It's not really a fire-sale, they are creating a user base for 3rd party apps. Get enough of these devices in people's hands and developers will create the apps for it.
They seem to be following the established x-box/playstation approach - make money off the apps, not off the kit itself. These are baby steps, but I can see the logic.
Ignore the BS examples, and it is true that a useable UI is one that expresses semantically related content in an appropriate context for the user, given time and place.
This research returns to first principals, and considers the underlying Dexter Model of Hypertext, and how that may be placed within a broader model of document content that is amenable to adaptation of content to user needs either through configuration, or through dynamic self-adaptation. The model proposed considers a document in terms of five individual abstractions: content, inventory, semantics, navigation, and adaptation. A simple (fully working) example, taken from a small fragment of Google Maps, is presented to demonstrate how such a model may operate in practice, adapting between two different user profiles on demand.
The smaller ISPs have fought and won the legal battle over throttling. They have won the right to not cap their customers, even though they buy (in bulk) from Bell. Bell is just dropping into line with what their competitors are now doing. I had an email from my own ISP (TechSavvy) a few weeks ago about it.
Considering how easy the DoD made it to steal the cables, from technical issues to simple security ones, the data was clearly meant to be read by the enemy.
Maybe it was not meant to be splashed over the world's newspapers, but they obviously had someone in mind that they wanted to indirectly influence.
Now they have to be seen to be shocked and horrified by the leaks, and Manning is the chosen sacrificial lamb. He may actually be responsible, but I doubt that it matters much.
See you there. I'll be the one wandering round looking for a PET I can play Star Trek or Civil War on...
Bus route 13 from Clarkson Go station if she won't drive you there:D
Well they only got there for disembarkation.... It's called the slip coach, where the last coach of the train would be detached at full running speed and then momentum and braking used to guide the disconnected coach into the station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_coach
It takes time to migrate to a new OS - your own development teams need training, your own device drivers need porting, your app developers need new tools and training, your help desk needs training. And you need to support your existing products and versions at the same time.
If you think you can simply buy in a new OS and be up and running with it across all your existing embedded products in just 6 months, you're being a little naive. I'm pleased I don't work for you.
Considering how badly funded many US schools are, with under-qualified teaching staff, does it make much difference whether the kids are actually there or not?
As far as I understand, Nokia's strength is in emerging markets, and has been for a long time.
Nokia does need to do something about its image, but it is building up a loyal customer base in Asia, Africa and South America where pricey smart-phone are still a tiny percentage of the market. If they can get a pubic perception of having some vaguely cool smartphones to help drive the brand, they have no problems really. And whilst Microsoft may be a busted flush in North America and Europe when it comes to phone OS, it is still a premium brand in Asia, Africa, and South America.
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I think you misread slightly. I wrote: " recent experience" i.e. those who have children in school now.
Chances are, I would trust to the experience of my friends and relatives in their experiences of particular schools. Experience in the UK would suggest that once metrics become well known, schools/hospitals/whoever work to manipulate the results. Surveys of actual recent experience work much better.
Experience tells us that when politicians start making demands for highly expensive development/construction efforts, they've usually been bought (quite literally) by the industry or specific businesses involved. Now we know who's offering to fund Newt's campaign...
Touch-screen hand-held devices require radically different metaphors to desktop/laptop computing. They are much more context-sensitive in terms of how and where they are used, and in the amount of attention the that user can give the UI. If Canonical can actually address this and are innovative, that would be great.
Unfortunately, looking at how Canonical are trying to force (other people's) mobile metaphors onto the Desktop, I seriously doubt their ability to build a better UI experience for mobile users. They don't even get that mobile and desktop computing is like chalk and cheese, let alone express any real innovation.
"Unfortunately that won't work"
You reckon? I know four people now who have bought the playbooks since Future Shop here in Canada started discounting. And none of them are techies. There seems to be a price-point for tablets, and the RIM discount is pretty much there I think.
It's also interesting to hear their opinions - they all love it, but one is complaining about lack of Skype (as people on here are).
They seem to be following the established x-box/playstation approach - make money off the apps, not off the kit itself. These are baby steps, but I can see the logic.
Sorry that it's behind a paywall, but here is my (peer-reviewed) take on it all http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1368052&CFID=76329268&CFTOKEN=39574160
From the abstract:
This research returns to first principals, and considers the underlying Dexter Model of Hypertext, and how that may be placed within a broader model of document content that is amenable to adaptation of content to user needs either through configuration, or through dynamic self-adaptation. The model proposed considers a document in terms of five individual abstractions: content, inventory, semantics, navigation, and adaptation. A simple (fully working) example, taken from a small fragment of Google Maps, is presented to demonstrate how such a model may operate in practice, adapting between two different user profiles on demand.
Sorry I meant "capping" not throttling. But the two seem to be going together here.
The smaller ISPs have fought and won the legal battle over throttling. They have won the right to not cap their customers, even though they buy (in bulk) from Bell. Bell is just dropping into line with what their competitors are now doing. I had an email from my own ISP (TechSavvy) a few weeks ago about it.
Maybe it was not meant to be splashed over the world's newspapers, but they obviously had someone in mind that they wanted to indirectly influence.
Now they have to be seen to be shocked and horrified by the leaks, and Manning is the chosen sacrificial lamb. He may actually be responsible, but I doubt that it matters much.
You take old stories about voices from burning bushes seriously? Wow.
See you there. I'll be the one wandering round looking for a PET I can play Star Trek or Civil War on... Bus route 13 from Clarkson Go station if she won't drive you there :D
If the students have so little understanding of the subject, then they should be awarded 'F' grades.
No, thank you. With Thai censorship, you never know where he's been.....
Well they only got there for disembarkation.... It's called the slip coach, where the last coach of the train would be detached at full running speed and then momentum and braking used to guide the disconnected coach into the station. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_coach
Well judging from from this clip, I'd say there's some serious self-censorship going on: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fox-news-watch-avoids-news-corp-scandal-almost_b75808
People who get their news from Fox must wonder what all the fuss is about.
A mere 3 feet off the floor does it for me.
You're comparing drug smuggling and free speech? Which planet are you from again?
It takes time to migrate to a new OS - your own development teams need training, your own device drivers need porting, your app developers need new tools and training, your help desk needs training. And you need to support your existing products and versions at the same time. If you think you can simply buy in a new OS and be up and running with it across all your existing embedded products in just 6 months, you're being a little naive. I'm pleased I don't work for you.
Motorola execs have made careers based on bad decisions. There is a reason why Motorola is as small as it is these days...
Considering how badly funded many US schools are, with under-qualified teaching staff, does it make much difference whether the kids are actually there or not?
Nokia does need to do something about its image, but it is building up a loyal customer base in Asia, Africa and South America where pricey smart-phone are still a tiny percentage of the market. If they can get a pubic perception of having some vaguely cool smartphones to help drive the brand, they have no problems really. And whilst Microsoft may be a busted flush in North America and Europe when it comes to phone OS, it is still a premium brand in Asia, Africa, and South America.
Don't write Nokia off yet.
Just to make the point:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cables-wikileaks
That's an interactive database of all the leaks released so far, and that's hosted by a respected national British newspaper, not Wikileaks.
Whatever you may feel about the leaks, it's simply too late to stop access or discussion about them.
When half the planet have either read it, or have easy access to it, to all intents and purposes it is.
The contents of the leaks are plastered all over the media. It's headline news in most countries, including your own.