Yep, they learned a lesson with the iPods—by looking at other portable music players. When people drop their MP3 players they don't want a breakable part to come off and four AAAs to roll under the sofa.
Most kids come in to school able and willing to learn, but degenerate when it gets boring. Teach well, consistently, and people remain interested and motivated. No need for medieval corporal punishment, which, in my opinion, belongs back up the evolutionary chain on the same level as early single-celled organisms.
The numbers still say that biology teachers have a harder time in the U.S. teaching evolution because of regulations on textbooks requiring them to have nonsense from the Discovery Institute, et al, as an alternate 'theory'.
But anyway, back to the point: when we get a case like this (texting, lying to the police, truanting, smoking etc.) we generally realise they're a lost cause, throw them in the lowest sets and wait for natural selection to take its course. They normally end up working at the deep frier in McDonald's.
I'm speaking from a purely UK-based point of view here, but here in England, it's up to the school to enforce these rules. Some schools have an acceptable use policy for mobiles, while others allow them as long as teachers don't see them (they remain in the student's pocket and such). Our taxes aren't wasted on calling out the (already stretched, badly trained and poorly funded) police to sort out such petty incidents.
And at least our classrooms have no state-supported creationist wackaloons, or a sports culture that leads to hysteria, exclusion and murder.
The bottom line is that us Brits can prioritise when it comes to education. Some schools allow phones, and we're none the worse for wear.
It depends. OS X's application architecture is vastly different, as the apps are self-contained bundles. If you copy it into/Applications, it's automatically granted permission IIRC to do whatever it likes in the home folder. If you're running it, say, from an external hard drive, then it asks your permission, because it may not have been consciously installed.
I doubt this could work in most Linux distros, as very few of them provide the applications as self-contained bundles. There are also so many commands (mkdir, rm, et al) that are difficult to differentiate from, say, Firefox, or even (god forbid) BadlyDisguisedMalware.out.
The closest thing to instant messaging in the days of Lincoln was talking face-to-face. Telegraph, optical, electronic or otherwise, doesn't really have an equivalent today, because it had a ridiculously low bandwidth and slower transmission times.
Surely virtual terminals (TTYs 0—7 and onwards, switchable using control and Fx) count as workspaces, and have been around since Xenix (the forerunner to SCO UNIX) in 1980-85ish?
If it's a truly graphical thing they're after, the Amiga is an example of prior art IIRC. However, it's such an obvious idea that it shouldn't be patentable, and the fact America's patent system is so broken is truly depressing.
Yes, it's 'fondly remembered' in the same way I fondly remember Windows 95 with DOS 7.0 and Mac OS 9. They were decent systems in their day, but by modern standards they're not passable.
Yes, but that's a *nix and it is capable of (albeit restricted) multitasking in that you can have the iPod playing and accept an incoming call with another application running. (Personally, I'd like better iPhone multitasking, but not if it's crap, which most multitasking OSes are.)
erm... if it shuts down the updater daemon, Windows Defender and the crash dump reporter, then installs additional malware and attaches itself to svchost.exe, explorer.exe and services.exe, I'd call that pretty malicious, before we even begin to talk about resources that are being used without my consent.
If anything, Microsoft's made it a bit simpler this time round (although I would have preferred them to offer one distribution and have done with it) in making every edition a superset of the next one down. The choice of Linux distros is baffling to new users—and I'm in favour of multiple distributions.
All my computers are named after famous computerists. For example, Welchman. Turing. Babbage. (The exception is my old laptop, named after Richard Hammond.)
My phones are also given surnames: Stubblefield, Adams, etc.
However, MS has been more conservative with betas this time round. It's more like betas were in ye olden days—the beta is stable with only a few bugs to be squished. The Release Candidate will, I suspect, be what it says on the tin: ready to go, unless a major bug is found. Considering that Vista's betas were alpha-quality, and its RC was like a rushed beta (i.e. alpha quality too), I wouldn't be surprised if the RC was identical to the RTM in all but the branding.
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but it ain't a supercomputer (at least not any more, by today's standards.)
Yep, they learned a lesson with the iPods—by looking at other portable music players. When people drop their MP3 players they don't want a breakable part to come off and four AAAs to roll under the sofa.
Actually getting them interested is a good start.
Most kids come in to school able and willing to learn, but degenerate when it gets boring. Teach well, consistently, and people remain interested and motivated. No need for medieval corporal punishment, which, in my opinion, belongs back up the evolutionary chain on the same level as early single-celled organisms.
The numbers still say that biology teachers have a harder time in the U.S. teaching evolution because of regulations on textbooks requiring them to have nonsense from the Discovery Institute, et al, as an alternate 'theory'.
But anyway, back to the point: when we get a case like this (texting, lying to the police, truanting, smoking etc.) we generally realise they're a lost cause, throw them in the lowest sets and wait for natural selection to take its course. They normally end up working at the deep frier in McDonald's.
I'm speaking from a purely UK-based point of view here, but here in England, it's up to the school to enforce these rules. Some schools have an acceptable use policy for mobiles, while others allow them as long as teachers don't see them (they remain in the student's pocket and such). Our taxes aren't wasted on calling out the (already stretched, badly trained and poorly funded) police to sort out such petty incidents.
And at least our classrooms have no state-supported creationist wackaloons, or a sports culture that leads to hysteria, exclusion and murder.
The bottom line is that us Brits can prioritise when it comes to education. Some schools allow phones, and we're none the worse for wear.
It's a cell, unless you've got more than one in series, in which case it becomes a battery.
It depends. OS X's application architecture is vastly different, as the apps are self-contained bundles. If you copy it into /Applications, it's automatically granted permission IIRC to do whatever it likes in the home folder. If you're running it, say, from an external hard drive, then it asks your permission, because it may not have been consciously installed.
I doubt this could work in most Linux distros, as very few of them provide the applications as self-contained bundles. There are also so many commands (mkdir, rm, et al) that are difficult to differentiate from, say, Firefox, or even (god forbid) BadlyDisguisedMalware.out.
The closest thing to instant messaging in the days of Lincoln was talking face-to-face. Telegraph, optical, electronic or otherwise, doesn't really have an equivalent today, because it had a ridiculously low bandwidth and slower transmission times.
Surely virtual terminals (TTYs 0—7 and onwards, switchable using control and Fx) count as workspaces, and have been around since Xenix (the forerunner to SCO UNIX) in 1980-85ish?
If it's a truly graphical thing they're after, the Amiga is an example of prior art IIRC. However, it's such an obvious idea that it shouldn't be patentable, and the fact America's patent system is so broken is truly depressing.
Yes, it's 'fondly remembered' in the same way I fondly remember Windows 95 with DOS 7.0 and Mac OS 9. They were decent systems in their day, but by modern standards they're not passable.
Yes, but that's a *nix and it is capable of (albeit restricted) multitasking in that you can have the iPod playing and accept an incoming call with another application running. (Personally, I'd like better iPhone multitasking, but not if it's crap, which most multitasking OSes are.)
2.0 support is currently in alpha, and, IIRC, the 2.0 API is heavily based on the 1.0 API so most of the work is already done.
Oh, PLEASE. Who actually uses Slackware 1.0?
erm... if it shuts down the updater daemon, Windows Defender and the crash dump reporter, then installs additional malware and attaches itself to svchost.exe, explorer.exe and services.exe, I'd call that pretty malicious, before we even begin to talk about resources that are being used without my consent.
And naÃveté has nothing to do with it?
That's cool, and doesn't qualify as 'dumb shit' because it at least has some real-world applications.
If anything, Microsoft's made it a bit simpler this time round (although I would have preferred them to offer one distribution and have done with it) in making every edition a superset of the next one down. The choice of Linux distros is baffling to new users—and I'm in favour of multiple distributions.
That was its nickname.
No. It's still a *nix box. It was an Eee PC though, and therefore very, very small.
All my computers are named after famous computerists. For example, Welchman. Turing. Babbage. (The exception is my old laptop, named after Richard Hammond.)
My phones are also given surnames: Stubblefield, Adams, etc.
All my iPods are called Steve.
Exactly. The problem was that Vista's RCs were beta-quality, and they ended up releasing a beta-quality OS.
However, MS has been more conservative with betas this time round. It's more like betas were in ye olden days—the beta is stable with only a few bugs to be squished. The Release Candidate will, I suspect, be what it says on the tin: ready to go, unless a major bug is found. Considering that Vista's betas were alpha-quality, and its RC was like a rushed beta (i.e. alpha quality too), I wouldn't be surprised if the RC was identical to the RTM in all but the branding.
...but inefficient plasma bulbs are shittier.
What hospitals have you been in? The only hospitals that seem to be illuminated by a solitary 40-watt lightbulb seem to be ones in scripted TV dramas.
Why do we still measure light bulbs by power draw? Why can't we measure them by brightness in candelas, or peak power output in joules?