It's not that every student has to use 2 devices. It's about making sure the network has sufficient capacity. You don't want to run into situations where a student cannot log on to the network and participate in his class, because some other guy decided to walk around with 2 phones instead of one. Dealing with capacity issues during class, THAT would be a distraction and a waste of time/money. Upgrading the WiFi network is, relatively speaking, a cheap way to avoid technology from becoming a real disruption.
Needless to say, the teachers can still limit/control technology use in their classroom as they see fit, but they can't control the guy in the other class from having the wifi-enabled phones in his pocket and taking away the network capacity they needed for class.
By why avoid it? Terrorism is way down on the list causes of death. Use that cash to fight obesity or cancer and you'll save a lot more lives.
Oh wait, seeing someone smile because they're cured of something horrible is not even remotely as fun as humiliating someone by having them take of their shoes and go through the nudy booth. Besides, saving the boob mama's to disk is still saving people.. sorta, right?
Come on, tell me, what's the real purpose of this stuff? 8 million flights without a successful terrorist attack since 9/11. All attempts either simply failed or were prevented using pre-9/11 technology, yet we still get these naked body scanners.
Now we also need them roaming the streets? "Hey Joe, hottie on your six, make a turn and flip the switch boy, let's see what she's got!". Anything else doesn't come near a justification.
IMHO, Firefox was never about creating "healthy" competition or being superior in some way. It was about creating a browser that we could simply use, which goes beyond is technical abilities.
Maemo was great. I loved Maemo. Debian based, about to get the love of Nokia's QT team, etc. It had a lot going for it. Just that Nokia should have slapped a capacitive touchscreen on the N900 and whip up a decent Twitter client.
Meego will be a disaster, for the simple reason that Intel is involved. Instead of betting on the QT team that Nokia acquired, which knows it's stuff, they're betting on a company which have never ever come up with a piece of good software. Nokia's management of the last 1--2 years is really brain-dead IMHO.
Swapped my N900 for Nexus One. Smooth phone, but boy do I miss the N900's Skype and integration. Nothing beats a video call with grandma on the other side of the globe over 3G!
Ah, and because the people you know don't think like that, nobody thinks like that, right? Pretty much everyone I know thinks a lot of what's on TV *could* be real.
To you and me a CSI guy zooming in on a tiny picture to identify a face in a reflection on something shiny may be just as ridiculous as a flying superhero with a big S on his chest, but for may people it's not.
Not sure what you mean with your Simpsons statement. Just because not everybody picks up every meme, doesn't mean that nobody is picking up anything.
It wouldn't make sense for them to pay 90% of the taxes. You forget that they own your government. Most taxes are made to flow TO the rich, not FROM them. Just check which companies get most of the big government contracts and who owns them. Having the rich pay more taxes will just result in more government expense to ensure it all flows back. The poor will not benefit from it.
My services are all IPv6 enabled and I'm actually surprised that a good 5-10% of my traffic is in fact from IPv6 users.
What I would like to see if for big companies (thinking Google, Microsoft, Facebook) to offer some IPv6-only features/services. It doesn't have to be spectacular, just enough to cause consumers to be aware and "remind" their ISP's to have a look at this IPv6 thing.
You give people too much credit. People like watching TV because they think that much of what they see *could* be real. The very fact that people pick up memes, mimic behavior, etc. from TV means they identify with the fiction they're presented.
Knowing that a role is played by a hologram instead of an actor makes it harder to identify yourself with it. At least initially. I expect most people to get over it quite quickly.
Agreed. At most they can demand how the radio and lower level network stack functions. (Which would be controlled by chip manufacturers and Apple, Google, etc.) As soon as you get to the TCP/IP layer it's no longer their business.
You didn't mention what country you are from, but kindly remind me how many young men and women (kids really) you sent to their deaths fighting the opium war in Afghanistan? or searching non-existant WMD's in Irak?
What China did was disgusting, but they haven't done anything like it for 30 years now. The US and a number of other western countries continue to do so daily.
1) Just because people reject change, in either direction, doesn't mean they don't want it. The majority of people always tend to reject and resist change, simply out of fear of change itself.
2) Non-mainlanders are flocking to the mainland by the *thousands*. Not just from Hong Kong, but also from the US, Canada, Taiwan, etc. Perhaps not because of the "stability", but certainly for the ever expanding economic and cultural opportunities. In fast, many of the multi-million companies that are often portrayed as "Chinese" as often founded and run by Chinese born in Hong Kong, the US, Taiwan, etc.
3) Democracy is also a form of dictatorship, at least for the minority who lost the vote. Don't misinterpret China for a military dictatorship, because it's not. While the rule of the country is limited to party members, the party itself is in fact quite large (>70mln members) and functions semi-democratically internally. (Not saying it's great, but certainly not as black and white as you suggest it to be.)
Back in the Netherlands this was easily fixed. One guy bought 30.000+ simcards and sold them. That may be a crime in itself for which he could be (but wasn't) charged. More importantly, the huge amount of cards made it plausible that he indeed sold some/most/all cards that ended up being involved in a crime.
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This is largely because tests are still designed for non-wired classrooms.
Math and physics don't require a computer? True, until you get an actual job that is.
It's not that every student has to use 2 devices. It's about making sure the network has sufficient capacity. You don't want to run into situations where a student cannot log on to the network and participate in his class, because some other guy decided to walk around with 2 phones instead of one. Dealing with capacity issues during class, THAT would be a distraction and a waste of time/money. Upgrading the WiFi network is, relatively speaking, a cheap way to avoid technology from becoming a real disruption.
Needless to say, the teachers can still limit/control technology use in their classroom as they see fit, but they can't control the guy in the other class from having the wifi-enabled phones in his pocket and taking away the network capacity they needed for class.
It's not working. Before 9/11 there were even more successful flights. Duh.
Doubling the number of border agents is also quicker. So is limiting passage to transparent cars only. What's your point?
Who asked for it to be quicker? And then who decided how much that would be worth?
I highly doubt that's how those things were purchased. More likely someone produced these machines, and needed to sell them.
Selling these things is the real focus. That's the link.
All purposes are just made up to justify the people paying for it. All bogus as much as my imagined purpose.
The original article suggests otherwise: http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans/
Though only time will tell.
By why avoid it? Terrorism is way down on the list causes of death. Use that cash to fight obesity or cancer and you'll save a lot more lives.
Oh wait, seeing someone smile because they're cured of something horrible is not even remotely as fun as humiliating someone by having them take of their shoes and go through the nudy booth. Besides, saving the boob mama's to disk is still saving people.. sorta, right?
Come on, tell me, what's the real purpose of this stuff? 8 million flights without a successful terrorist attack since 9/11. All attempts either simply failed or were prevented using pre-9/11 technology, yet we still get these naked body scanners.
Now we also need them roaming the streets? "Hey Joe, hottie on your six, make a turn and flip the switch boy, let's see what she's got!". Anything else doesn't come near a justification.
Amen!
IMHO, Firefox was never about creating "healthy" competition or being superior in some way. It was about creating a browser that we could simply use, which goes beyond is technical abilities.
ARM = Maemo/N900.
Meego is being developed on Intel nightmare chips. The ARM port of MeeGo is not supported.
Maemo was great. I loved Maemo. Debian based, about to get the love of Nokia's QT team, etc. It had a lot going for it. Just that Nokia should have slapped a capacitive touchscreen on the N900 and whip up a decent Twitter client.
Meego will be a disaster, for the simple reason that Intel is involved. Instead of betting on the QT team that Nokia acquired, which knows it's stuff, they're betting on a company which have never ever come up with a piece of good software. Nokia's management of the last 1--2 years is really brain-dead IMHO.
Swapped my N900 for Nexus One. Smooth phone, but boy do I miss the N900's Skype and integration. Nothing beats a video call with grandma on the other side of the globe over 3G!
Because wall-e is not pretending to be human. He's clearly animated, or a robot at most.
Ah, and because the people you know don't think like that, nobody thinks like that, right? Pretty much everyone I know thinks a lot of what's on TV *could* be real.
To you and me a CSI guy zooming in on a tiny picture to identify a face in a reflection on something shiny may be just as ridiculous as a flying superhero with a big S on his chest, but for may people it's not.
Not sure what you mean with your Simpsons statement. Just because not everybody picks up every meme, doesn't mean that nobody is picking up anything.
Nowhere did I use the word "can't". I only said "makes it harder" and "initially".
Reading is difficult, I know.
The point of my comment is that the increased threshold is what makes some people complain temporarily.
To suggest that people identify with optimus price as well as they do with, say, sean connery in any of his roles, THAT is ridiculous.
Of course he has his own agenda. The more tax the rich pay, the more money the government can spend on Buffet's companies/projects.
Incorporate. Stop paying. Have your company do it.
Really, spend your next holiday reading up incorporating and corporate taxes. It will be the most rewarding investment you have ever made.
It wouldn't make sense for them to pay 90% of the taxes. You forget that they own your government. Most taxes are made to flow TO the rich, not FROM them. Just check which companies get most of the big government contracts and who owns them. Having the rich pay more taxes will just result in more government expense to ensure it all flows back. The poor will not benefit from it.
My services are all IPv6 enabled and I'm actually surprised that a good 5-10% of my traffic is in fact from IPv6 users.
What I would like to see if for big companies (thinking Google, Microsoft, Facebook) to offer some IPv6-only features/services. It doesn't have to be spectacular, just enough to cause consumers to be aware and "remind" their ISP's to have a look at this IPv6 thing.
Interpreting a play into light is art? Since when? By association?
You give people too much credit. People like watching TV because they think that much of what they see *could* be real. The very fact that people pick up memes, mimic behavior, etc. from TV means they identify with the fiction they're presented.
Knowing that a role is played by a hologram instead of an actor makes it harder to identify yourself with it. At least initially. I expect most people to get over it quite quickly.
Agreed. At most they can demand how the radio and lower level network stack functions. (Which would be controlled by chip manufacturers and Apple, Google, etc.) As soon as you get to the TCP/IP layer it's no longer their business.
So do factory unlocked phones or phones unlocked after your 2 year term is up.
You didn't mention what country you are from, but kindly remind me how many young men and women (kids really) you sent to their deaths fighting the opium war in Afghanistan? or searching non-existant WMD's in Irak?
What China did was disgusting, but they haven't done anything like it for 30 years now. The US and a number of other western countries continue to do so daily.
1) Just because people reject change, in either direction, doesn't mean they don't want it. The majority of people always tend to reject and resist change, simply out of fear of change itself.
2) Non-mainlanders are flocking to the mainland by the *thousands*. Not just from Hong Kong, but also from the US, Canada, Taiwan, etc. Perhaps not because of the "stability", but certainly for the ever expanding economic and cultural opportunities. In fast, many of the multi-million companies that are often portrayed as "Chinese" as often founded and run by Chinese born in Hong Kong, the US, Taiwan, etc.
3) Democracy is also a form of dictatorship, at least for the minority who lost the vote. Don't misinterpret China for a military dictatorship, because it's not. While the rule of the country is limited to party members, the party itself is in fact quite large (>70mln members) and functions semi-democratically internally. (Not saying it's great, but certainly not as black and white as you suggest it to be.)
Back in the Netherlands this was easily fixed. One guy bought 30.000+ simcards and sold them. That may be a crime in itself for which he could be (but wasn't) charged. More importantly, the huge amount of cards made it plausible that he indeed sold some/most/all cards that ended up being involved in a crime.