sigh, i see this thread devolving into flames by pixel peepers who will find the most minute issue to pick at while failing to just look at the damn pictures admit that they look quite nice. The kind of folks for whom photography has little to do with the actual content of the picture. I think the samples look pretty good considering they came from a cell phone with "fake" 41MP sensor and a lens that's "too small".
Nice job Nokia. Would have been nice to see this tech a few years sooner when you still were a player in the US market. I'd love to see them license this. I don't plan to buy a Nokia phone, so it would be cool to have a decent camera in the form factor of say a thumb drive that i could just keep on my key chain.
read this: A Photographer's Eulogy for Eastman Kodak a couple of weeks ago and it's a good complement to TFA. Among other things, the author recalls a meeting with a Kodak product manager in the early 90's who's response to digital on the horizon was "How do we stop this thing?" He also notes this wasn't the first time Kodak's ego got in its own way. Anyway, an interesting read.
and for the other 95% of the population that doesn't teach? we get burnout too you know and for everyone else that entails the risk of unemployment when we are most vulnerable. so you're saying it's ok for students to be saddled with a burned out teacher that doesn't want to be there for a couple of years because the teacher will snap out of it eventually? This goes right back to one of the central issues, is the union there to protect careers or ensure quality education?
you know, i never said anything about firing the bottom 50% every year and in fact i made a point to say this would allow measurement year over year. No one should be let go over one years performance (and they should consider themselves lucky to be in a job that gets that kind of break). You got bad scores this year? Maybe you had bad luck with student assignment. You've been in the bottom 10% of teachers in your school for 3 years running? Maybe you should try another field. the unions want absolutely nothing to do with anything that holds teachers accountable no matter how much they may act like it. In most other fields, 3 years at the bottom of the pile will send you on your way. Why the insistence that teaching should be any different?
average as compared to teachers in same school? I'm feeling lazy now, so i'm just going to paste in my reply along these same lines from another comment.
"However, if a teacher rates low in comparison to other teachers in the SAME school, year after year after year then something is wrong with the way they teach (or don't as the case may be). It's highly unlikely to for a teacher to get stuck with the worst case population of kids, every class, every year."
So, we don't have to stick with absolute scores here. Improvement is improvement. People just want to see that SOMETHING is happening and that teachers that just collect a check don't get to keep working the system.
"your idea is to export shitty, unrepresentative quantitative measures to other fields"
They are shitty from the perspective of the union, which has a vested interest in rigging the scores and seems to want to deny that a low score even indicates anything (only good scores should count you know). They are not necessarily inherently shitty, they just don't show what the unions want to see.
Anyway, i wasn't advocating the arbitrary metrics used in corp America being adopted for use in schools. Rather I was pointing out that the complaining is not going to get them much sympathy when many of the parents of their students have to deal with such arbitrary measurements and not the relatively formalized, standardized scoring the unions oppose.
oh come on! We're not talking about a scenario where a teacher has bad luck one year and scores low. Yes, there are a lot of factors outside the school and some kids just don't care. However, if a teacher rates low in comparison to other teachers in the SAME school, year after year after year then something is wrong with the way they teach (or don't as the case may be). It's highly unlikely to for a teacher to get stuck with the worst case population of kids, every class, every year.
That's what's so frustrating, is that the unions want to block ANY measurement they don't deem perfect. Even a flawed system is better than nothing so long as it is consistent.
...and my job is NOT funded by tax payer dollars, nor is it nearly as important as educating children. You can bet your ass the people that supply the money for my salary have access to the results. I gave up and moved my kids to a good school district and I pay higher school taxes (with no complaint) for that. I am certainly entitled to know that my money is being spent effectively. If there are teachers that are consistently below average and due to unions cannot be replaced, then maybe exposing the fact that they don't do a good job will motivate them. God knows nothing else seems to work.
Don't get me wrong, I have friends that teach, and a lot of my neighbors teach at my kid's school. I understand the issues they deal with. I'm not really bashing teachers here. I'm just sick of bad teachers getting a free pass to stay bad and the unions balking any attempt to improve things other than by saying "MORE MONEY!"
"decrying the methodology used in the evaluations" loose translation: "we don't like it because it's not rigged to make us look good". Cry me a river. Most of the rest of us in the corporate world have regular evaluations, sometimes against unrealistic metrics and could lose our job based on the results. Welcome to the real world where you have to prove you're worth retaining. I can't blame it on the parents, my boss, my coworkers, the weather, lack of funding. Just be glad you can't be outsourced. yet.
Makes you wonder just how bad the results are if there's this much fuss from the union.
What are the bookmarks? Haven't run into those. Does he have the current WDTV Live or the old one that just called WDTV? I bought the original a couple of years ago and was less than impressed. I actually returned it within a week and put my media library on hold. Video support was horrible and I could encode 2 movies identically and one would play and the other would fail. The new player is night and day better than that old piece of crap. It's vastly improved.
I love this little box, have a couple of them and there's not much it won't do. Plays just about any video format including mkv, vob and iso images. Connects to Netflix and 10 or so other services (the glaring omission here being Amazon). Can connect via DLNA, directly to a linux or windows share or you can plug a USB drive into it play media from that as well. It's a very capable device and @ $99 it's a relative bargain. Did i mention the interface is easy and intuitive with lots of options, you can customize several buttons on the remote and there's a remote control app for Android and iPhone?
Sorry to sound like a shill, but I've been really happy with these players.
after 10 min just pop up a random passage from the user manual and make the user find the correct page. the longer the manual, the more effective this is. alternatively, devise a strange set of symbols and provide the user with a high tech spinning paper wheel so they can "decode". this isn't rocket science here ; )
do we have to know the benefit up front? So maybe we recover some extinct species that got wiped out by your invasive ones. Or maybe we find a bunch of seeds, grow the plant and find out it's the perfect plant for producing biofuels. Or maybe we restore some lost Amazonian species that just happens to lead to a cure for cancer. Who knows, isn't it worth trying?
this was what turned me off to the series, and I'm an avid sci-fi/fantasy reader. It just was tooooo much. It was like one of those people that takes 20 minutes to tell a story that could be told well in 5 min. Tangent must have been his favorite word, or maybe he was payed by the letter? Kick backs from paper companies? I don't know the answer, but he makes a Stephen King novel seem like a magazine short story. Anyway, it's a shame because they seem well regarded, but the more books he released the more of a beating it seemed to get up to speed.
Was just thinking the Cliff's Notes version of Wheel of Time would be as thick as the first book : ).
Well, this isn't exactly the same as a Catholic pharmacist refusing to fill birth control scrips because the man in the sky said sex is bad. The doctors are making this decision based on solid scientific evidence, not some blind faith in something that can't be proven. Vaccines save lives. Un-vaccinated people are a risk to those with compromised/under developed immune systems. Those are facts and parents that refuse to accept them are welcome to find a free love, herbal pediatrician that will make them feel good while taking their money.
I love it when these parents say "well my kid has no vaccines and has never gotten ". Yeah no shit Sherlock, it's because the rest of us are not spreading it around thanks to our vaccines. The day there's a new strain that flies around killing the un-vaccinated they'll say "Why didn't someone do something or warn us?!?"
wait a sec... people COMPLAIN when Apple charges you $99 to tell you what the CONTENT of your app can and cannot be. If all they were doing is charging for a stability/vulnerability/security vetting that would be reasonable. Instead you pay $99 for that and for some guy to make arbitrary decisions on whether your app is either good enough, cool enough or "tasteful" enough according to rules they don't see fit to explain clearly and change without warning at any time.
well, we were replacing an older 65" and the wife refused to go smaller. at the time, the options were plasma and lcd . one was 2x-3x more expensive and the other wasn't even available that large. I forget which was which. So it was a relative bargain. Anyway, we bought it with the expectation of keeping it for 8 to 10 years at least, so over that much time, it's not so expensive, especially considering how much we've enjoyed it. we watch a lot of movies, so i consider it money saved from $15 theater tickets and $5 soft drinks.
yeah i think this a key point that a lot of the 3D haters miss. The reason home 3d isn't taking off is not because people don't want it or have a phobia about wearing glasses in front of the TV. The reason is that so many of us spent a crap load of money on a new lcd/led/plasma/DLP in the last few years and those expensive TV's are still fully functional. The TV industry seems to think their product is on a cell phone like upgrade cycle. Sorry guys, I spent $2500 on a 65" DLP maybe 6 years ago and it still looks great. No problems but a worn out bulb about 4 years in (user replaceable thanks). When it dies, i'll get something with 3d for two reasons. 1) Why not? 2) They all come with 3d anyway.
does anyone know if i switched from AT&T to T-Mobile, could I keep my phone (Samsung Galaxy S, AKA Captivate/Fascinate). love this phone and hate to get another one.
Show me a book that can survive getting soaked. Show me a book that can survive being carried around in a backpack for a couple of years.
ok, i know this is about college textbooks, but seriously, did any of you go to public school in the US? Books are NOT replaced every new edition and often get used for several years being carried in backbacks, dropped, vandalized, rained on etc and are STILL used the next year. and the year after, and the next. The damn things are almost indestructible. I know i was the lucky recipient of more than one book that looked and smelled about 20 years old and had unidentifiable ick on and between the pages. still worked.
Anyway, it's funny that Apple had to be the one to make this happen. Jesus, the textbook publishers could have probably teamed with Amazon for a customized "educational" Kindle years ago. They could sell college level books through Amazon. For public schools, it's a (relatively) inexpensive e-textbook. School gets them, assigns one to each student preloaded w/ all the books that student requires. What do you expect though? They want change as much as the music industry does.
yeah well you could easily say that this is at the heart of many problems in the USA. Companies feel no obligation or responsibility for the country they do business in. It's all just a numbers game played by whiz kid MBA's. Of course, the rest of us, through the government have a HUUUGE responsibility to save these companies when the shit hits the fan.
To me, Apple and companies that work like it are no better than the big oil everyone loves to hate. When is it enough profit? Plenty of companies could make almost as much money doing things here and helping their fellow citizens and ultimately the people that buy their crap. They choose to make $15 more per widget instead.
Whatever. This country is headed down the drain because the guiding philosophy has become "i'm gonna get mine, fuck you"
"Do you really think the Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt would exist if Tesla did not?"
Of course they would. No one looked at a struggling boutique electric car manufacturer with a single car priced over $100k and said "let's be like them". If you want the inspiration for other manufacturers stepping up their efforts just look at the Toyota Prius. Yes, it's a hybrid, but full electric is just the obvious evolution of what was done there and a way to avoid being just "another Prius". The success of that car showed the big makers that there was a market. These big automakers don't want to sell 2000 cars a year, they want to sell millions.
Now as for the battery packs, Toyota and Daimler probably want to remain flexible and avoid the expensive tooling that producing in house would entail. Better to just have someone else supply as needed like any other component. If someone else comes up with a better battery pack, you just have to get one made to fit your cars, not overhaul your battery making factory.
thanks, I was about to post the same damn thing. I just used this feature last week for a partial day notification and was worried my head would explode when I read the summary! Not sure how far back this goes but as of Outlook 2007 it's there. LOL maybe IBM is still using Notes or some old version of Outlook.
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sigh, i see this thread devolving into flames by pixel peepers who will find the most minute issue to pick at while failing to just look at the damn pictures admit that they look quite nice. The kind of folks for whom photography has little to do with the actual content of the picture. I think the samples look pretty good considering they came from a cell phone with "fake" 41MP sensor and a lens that's "too small".
Nice job Nokia. Would have been nice to see this tech a few years sooner when you still were a player in the US market. I'd love to see them license this. I don't plan to buy a Nokia phone, so it would be cool to have a decent camera in the form factor of say a thumb drive that i could just keep on my key chain.
read this: A Photographer's Eulogy for Eastman Kodak a couple of weeks ago and it's a good complement to TFA. Among other things, the author recalls a meeting with a Kodak product manager in the early 90's who's response to digital on the horizon was "How do we stop this thing?" He also notes this wasn't the first time Kodak's ego got in its own way. Anyway, an interesting read.
and for the other 95% of the population that doesn't teach? we get burnout too you know and for everyone else that entails the risk of unemployment when we are most vulnerable. so you're saying it's ok for students to be saddled with a burned out teacher that doesn't want to be there for a couple of years because the teacher will snap out of it eventually? This goes right back to one of the central issues, is the union there to protect careers or ensure quality education?
you know, i never said anything about firing the bottom 50% every year and in fact i made a point to say this would allow measurement year over year. No one should be let go over one years performance (and they should consider themselves lucky to be in a job that gets that kind of break). You got bad scores this year? Maybe you had bad luck with student assignment. You've been in the bottom 10% of teachers in your school for 3 years running? Maybe you should try another field. the unions want absolutely nothing to do with anything that holds teachers accountable no matter how much they may act like it. In most other fields, 3 years at the bottom of the pile will send you on your way. Why the insistence that teaching should be any different?
average as compared to teachers in same school? I'm feeling lazy now, so i'm just going to paste in my reply along these same lines from another comment.
"However, if a teacher rates low in comparison to other teachers in the SAME school, year after year after year then something is wrong with the way they teach (or don't as the case may be). It's highly unlikely to for a teacher to get stuck with the worst case population of kids, every class, every year."
So, we don't have to stick with absolute scores here. Improvement is improvement. People just want to see that SOMETHING is happening and that teachers that just collect a check don't get to keep working the system.
"your idea is to export shitty, unrepresentative quantitative measures to other fields"
They are shitty from the perspective of the union, which has a vested interest in rigging the scores and seems to want to deny that a low score even indicates anything (only good scores should count you know). They are not necessarily inherently shitty, they just don't show what the unions want to see.
Anyway, i wasn't advocating the arbitrary metrics used in corp America being adopted for use in schools. Rather I was pointing out that the complaining is not going to get them much sympathy when many of the parents of their students have to deal with such arbitrary measurements and not the relatively formalized, standardized scoring the unions oppose.
oh come on! We're not talking about a scenario where a teacher has bad luck one year and scores low. Yes, there are a lot of factors outside the school and some kids just don't care. However, if a teacher rates low in comparison to other teachers in the SAME school, year after year after year then something is wrong with the way they teach (or don't as the case may be). It's highly unlikely to for a teacher to get stuck with the worst case population of kids, every class, every year.
That's what's so frustrating, is that the unions want to block ANY measurement they don't deem perfect. Even a flawed system is better than nothing so long as it is consistent.
...and my job is NOT funded by tax payer dollars, nor is it nearly as important as educating children. You can bet your ass the people that supply the money for my salary have access to the results. I gave up and moved my kids to a good school district and I pay higher school taxes (with no complaint) for that. I am certainly entitled to know that my money is being spent effectively. If there are teachers that are consistently below average and due to unions cannot be replaced, then maybe exposing the fact that they don't do a good job will motivate them. God knows nothing else seems to work.
Don't get me wrong, I have friends that teach, and a lot of my neighbors teach at my kid's school. I understand the issues they deal with. I'm not really bashing teachers here. I'm just sick of bad teachers getting a free pass to stay bad and the unions balking any attempt to improve things other than by saying "MORE MONEY!"
"decrying the methodology used in the evaluations" loose translation: "we don't like it because it's not rigged to make us look good". Cry me a river. Most of the rest of us in the corporate world have regular evaluations, sometimes against unrealistic metrics and could lose our job based on the results. Welcome to the real world where you have to prove you're worth retaining. I can't blame it on the parents, my boss, my coworkers, the weather, lack of funding. Just be glad you can't be outsourced. yet.
Makes you wonder just how bad the results are if there's this much fuss from the union.
What are the bookmarks? Haven't run into those. Does he have the current WDTV Live or the old one that just called WDTV? I bought the original a couple of years ago and was less than impressed. I actually returned it within a week and put my media library on hold. Video support was horrible and I could encode 2 movies identically and one would play and the other would fail. The new player is night and day better than that old piece of crap. It's vastly improved.
I love this little box, have a couple of them and there's not much it won't do. Plays just about any video format including mkv, vob and iso images. Connects to Netflix and 10 or so other services (the glaring omission here being Amazon). Can connect via DLNA, directly to a linux or windows share or you can plug a USB drive into it play media from that as well. It's a very capable device and @ $99 it's a relative bargain. Did i mention the interface is easy and intuitive with lots of options, you can customize several buttons on the remote and there's a remote control app for Android and iPhone?
Sorry to sound like a shill, but I've been really happy with these players.
after 10 min just pop up a random passage from the user manual and make the user find the correct page. the longer the manual, the more effective this is. alternatively, devise a strange set of symbols and provide the user with a high tech spinning paper wheel so they can "decode". this isn't rocket science here ; )
do we have to know the benefit up front? So maybe we recover some extinct species that got wiped out by your invasive ones. Or maybe we find a bunch of seeds, grow the plant and find out it's the perfect plant for producing biofuels. Or maybe we restore some lost Amazonian species that just happens to lead to a cure for cancer. Who knows, isn't it worth trying?
this was what turned me off to the series, and I'm an avid sci-fi/fantasy reader. It just was tooooo much. It was like one of those people that takes 20 minutes to tell a story that could be told well in 5 min. Tangent must have been his favorite word, or maybe he was payed by the letter? Kick backs from paper companies? I don't know the answer, but he makes a Stephen King novel seem like a magazine short story. Anyway, it's a shame because they seem well regarded, but the more books he released the more of a beating it seemed to get up to speed.
Was just thinking the Cliff's Notes version of Wheel of Time would be as thick as the first book : ).
Well, this isn't exactly the same as a Catholic pharmacist refusing to fill birth control scrips because the man in the sky said sex is bad. The doctors are making this decision based on solid scientific evidence, not some blind faith in something that can't be proven. Vaccines save lives. Un-vaccinated people are a risk to those with compromised/under developed immune systems. Those are facts and parents that refuse to accept them are welcome to find a free love, herbal pediatrician that will make them feel good while taking their money.
I love it when these parents say "well my kid has no vaccines and has never gotten ". Yeah no shit Sherlock, it's because the rest of us are not spreading it around thanks to our vaccines. The day there's a new strain that flies around killing the un-vaccinated they'll say "Why didn't someone do something or warn us?!?"
wait a sec... people COMPLAIN when Apple charges you $99 to tell you what the CONTENT of your app can and cannot be. If all they were doing is charging for a stability/vulnerability/security vetting that would be reasonable. Instead you pay $99 for that and for some guy to make arbitrary decisions on whether your app is either good enough, cool enough or "tasteful" enough according to rules they don't see fit to explain clearly and change without warning at any time.
It's the GOD particle! We now know what was coming out of the lost ark in Raiders, a giant flood of Higgs.
well, we were replacing an older 65" and the wife refused to go smaller. at the time, the options were plasma and lcd . one was 2x-3x more expensive and the other wasn't even available that large. I forget which was which. So it was a relative bargain. Anyway, we bought it with the expectation of keeping it for 8 to 10 years at least, so over that much time, it's not so expensive, especially considering how much we've enjoyed it. we watch a lot of movies, so i consider it money saved from $15 theater tickets and $5 soft drinks.
yeah i think this a key point that a lot of the 3D haters miss. The reason home 3d isn't taking off is not because people don't want it or have a phobia about wearing glasses in front of the TV. The reason is that so many of us spent a crap load of money on a new lcd/led/plasma/DLP in the last few years and those expensive TV's are still fully functional. The TV industry seems to think their product is on a cell phone like upgrade cycle. Sorry guys, I spent $2500 on a 65" DLP maybe 6 years ago and it still looks great. No problems but a worn out bulb about 4 years in (user replaceable thanks). When it dies, i'll get something with 3d for two reasons. 1) Why not? 2) They all come with 3d anyway.
thanks for the answers!
does anyone know if i switched from AT&T to T-Mobile, could I keep my phone (Samsung Galaxy S, AKA Captivate/Fascinate). love this phone and hate to get another one.
About sick of AT&T after 10 years.
Show me a book that can survive getting soaked. Show me a book that can survive being carried around in a backpack for a couple of years.
ok, i know this is about college textbooks, but seriously, did any of you go to public school in the US? Books are NOT replaced every new edition and often get used for several years being carried in backbacks, dropped, vandalized, rained on etc and are STILL used the next year. and the year after, and the next. The damn things are almost indestructible. I know i was the lucky recipient of more than one book that looked and smelled about 20 years old and had unidentifiable ick on and between the pages. still worked.
Anyway, it's funny that Apple had to be the one to make this happen. Jesus, the textbook publishers could have probably teamed with Amazon for a customized "educational" Kindle years ago. They could sell college level books through Amazon. For public schools, it's a (relatively) inexpensive e-textbook. School gets them, assigns one to each student preloaded w/ all the books that student requires. What do you expect though? They want change as much as the music industry does.
yeah well you could easily say that this is at the heart of many problems in the USA. Companies feel no obligation or responsibility for the country they do business in. It's all just a numbers game played by whiz kid MBA's. Of course, the rest of us, through the government have a HUUUGE responsibility to save these companies when the shit hits the fan.
To me, Apple and companies that work like it are no better than the big oil everyone loves to hate. When is it enough profit? Plenty of companies could make almost as much money doing things here and helping their fellow citizens and ultimately the people that buy their crap. They choose to make $15 more per widget instead.
Whatever. This country is headed down the drain because the guiding philosophy has become "i'm gonna get mine, fuck you"
"Do you really think the Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt would exist if Tesla did not?"
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Of course they would. No one looked at a struggling boutique electric car manufacturer with a single car priced over $100k and said "let's be like them". If you want the inspiration for other manufacturers stepping up their efforts just look at the Toyota Prius. Yes, it's a hybrid, but full electric is just the obvious evolution of what was done there and a way to avoid being just "another Prius". The success of that car showed the big makers that there was a market. These big automakers don't want to sell 2000 cars a year, they want to sell millions
Now as for the battery packs, Toyota and Daimler probably want to remain flexible and avoid the expensive tooling that producing in house would entail. Better to just have someone else supply as needed like any other component. If someone else comes up with a better battery pack, you just have to get one made to fit your cars, not overhaul your battery making factory.
thanks, I was about to post the same damn thing. I just used this feature last week for a partial day notification and was worried my head would explode when I read the summary! Not sure how far back this goes but as of Outlook 2007 it's there. LOL maybe IBM is still using Notes or some old version of Outlook.