My iPhone 3GS is 3 years old and running iOS 5. It will also be supported by iOS 6. I don't know of a single Android phone that's over a year old that has a supported upgrade to ICS. All 3 year old Android phones are still on 1.x, except the HTC Hero, which is on 2.1, with cyanogen it manages 2.2.
Sure there are outdates iPhones, but over 80% is running the latest iOS. Most Android users couldn't even upgrade if they wanted to, only phones from mid-2011 support ICS.
Show me any phone from 2009 or even 2010 that runs ICS.
What I see around me, is that most Android users don't pay for a lot of their apps, "sharing" them with their friends, while for iOS your basic option is to buy the app.
I think the major reason that even popular Android apps don't sell nearly as well as their iOS counterparts, is that it's much easier to pirate Android apps.
In return for paying for their apps, iOS users get two things: - More and better quality apps, as developers like getting paid. - Long term support for their apps, as they get upgrades as the developers keep investing their earnings.*
* My 3 year old iPhone can also run the latest iOS and apps, there is little fragmentation.
There is a reason why Apple cuts off support for their older versions of iPhone folks, its because they would run like crap with the latest version of iOS installed.
My iPhone 3GS is over 3 years old. It runs the latest version of iOS 5 and rumours are that iOS 6 will also support it.
This is a phone from when Android was on version 1.5. It's about as old as the HTC Hero, which didn't get any official updates after Android 2.1. CyanogenMod can get 2.2 on it, or a rather unstable 2.3.
Other similar age Android phones (Samsung Galaxy I7500), never even got an upgrade to the 2.x series.
My 3 year old iPhone is still getting OS updates, and looks to be good even for the next major upgrade. The comparable HTC Hero (which I also looked at when I shopped around 3 years ago) didn't get an official update since mid 2010, almost 2 years ago.
I still use it every day and it's battery lasts for 3 days, 2 if I use it heavily.
If what you say is even true for Samsung and HTC, unless you want to label them CCC as well, then I think what you say is true for all Adroid phone manufacturers.
Googling around, I think the oldest phones running ICS are the mid-2011 Sony devices. Prove me wrong, tell me which Adroid phone from 2009 or even 2010 has a supported update to android 4.x.
Believe it or not all of those kids are actually different. Some of them would probably thrive in Montessori schools learning higher order thinking skills (lower case since using HOTS is apparently trolling). They might go on to found Amazon and Google and become global leaders.
Some kids will be lucky to manage memorizing crap for 12 years, make it out with a diploma, and find a high paying career in factory work, burger flipping or roughnecking.
Your comparison is very flawed. Higher order thinking is about challenging the student. For Sergei Brin to figure out a new search algorithm is as much a challenge as figuring out in what order to cut down a corpse of trees is for a lumberjack.
Teaching higher order thinking should not be for a few lucky ones going to the right elite schools. It should be applied to teaching in general, adjusted to the level of the student. What is a challenge for one could be trivial for someone else.
As posted by docmordin:
F. M. Newman ("Higher order thinking in teaching social studies: A rationale for the assessment of classroom thoughtfulness", Journal of Curriculum Studies, vol. 22, 41-56, 1990) defined higher- and lower-order thinking, in virtually the same manner as Maier, based upon observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers and department chairs. That is, lower-order thinking demands only routine or mechanical application of previously acquired information, e.g., inserting numbers into established formulas or regurgitating lists of facts. On the other hand, higher-order thinking "challenges the student to interpret, analyze, or manipulate information". Furthermore, he pointed out that since individuals differ in the kinds of problems they find challenging, higher-order thinking is relative: what one person finds challenging another may find elementary; as such, to determine the extent to which the individual is involved in higher-order thinking, one would presumably need to know something about that individual's background.
It's the graphics artists and PR departments that are used to handling printed materials that I think are really to blame here. There are a lot of webpages out there that try to look like a page in a magazine. And usually at the cost of usability and ease of navigation.
I have experiences where big enterprise java program would only run on very specific java versions. e.g. 1.5.1 r16 would work, but 1.5.1 r17 would break things.
It is a major pain with everything trying to auto-update nowadays.
They even broke when I applied a security patch to java, let alone a real upgrade.
On Windows the program is allowing some variance in the java version, on Linux and OSX there is usually only one version that works. And with that I mean something like 1.5.1 r16 with 1.5.1 r17 breaking everything.
I've never used Win8 and certainly not Metro. My guess would be Ctrl-Atl-Del then Ctrl-C then Ctrl-F4 then Alt-F4 and if none of those would work I would be lost and use the power button on the PC.
Tell me what is the answer and would any of the above work?
I would have to say that the majority of computer users use a CLI on a regular basis, whether it be a video game or a chat program.
The question isn't if they can adjust to a CLI, it is knowing the commands that is the hard part.
This is the problem of the CLI. I use the Linux and OSX CLI on a daily basis. But I still often have to hit google first, because I know "there is a command that does..." but I don't remember the name because it was half a year or more since I used it.
I use Windows, Linux* and OSX on a daily basis, at work, where I need to get stuff done and don't have time to tinker. OSX wins hands down on just letting me do my work and not claiming any of my time. I've use each of these at least since the mid-nineties.
This is still the essential reason. The lack of applications. It's just as much true in the desktop OS market as it is in the smartphone OS market and one of the things that could really hurt MS in their move to windows 8.
You can have quite a few bad user interface ideas (See lot's of things from MS, OSS and some from Apple) and keep your user base. but you need the applications to get the users. If you want to help Linux gain ground, Wine is where you should focus your efforts.
I don't think Bitcoin will work in the long run. The main reason is that it's designed to be limited to a fixed amount. This leads to three problems:
1) And financial transaction that requires interest is a problem. Anything from a business loan to a mortgage is basically impossible in a fixed money supply.
2) Assuming the economy grows, there would be deflation, which will mean people try to hoard their bitcoins instead of spending them. This in turn increases the deflation.
3) Related to the first two points: One person can over time become the owner of all bitcoins if this person has a sizeable initial stack of bitcoins, and lends them out at interest, and keeps spending well below the gained interest, you end up gaining a larger and larger share of the total bitcoin supply.
These effects feed into each other, enforcing the effects and if kept unchecked will lead to a situation where a few players own the vast majority of the bitcoin supply. The pool of bitcoins not in their hands will dwindle as more and more of it is paid as interest to the large lenders, given continuous deflation and ultimately concludes in a credit crunch of epic proportions.
A successful bitcoin is a setup for a major economic disaster, a failed bitcoin can be ignored. I choose the second option because I think the first one would create problems much bigger than the economy has now.
To me it sounds like sufficient reason to have the hospitals fail the performance review, something along the lines of "lack of accurate time keeping".
I think that you can't make the assumption that a system where the clock is off, hasn't drifted significantly over the past 6 months. The fact that the clock is off, is probably by itself enough reason to suspect that there is significant clock drift. If you make that assumption, your report is based on bogus data as far as I'm concerned. I would throw the entire report out based on that.
Now if you knew how much the systems were off at the start of the 6 month period and how much they were off at the end of the period, then you have at least a first order approximation of the drift and know it's range over the studied period. Then you can at least estimate the size of your errors. Measuring the clock drift afterwards isn't going to be good enough as it often depends on the age of the machine, ambient temperature and possibly other effects.
With one data point you have no idea about how big the error is you're making. You could be off by 30 minutes or more easily, which is very significant for the case you're describing.
I think one of the reasons to still study humans, is that we live very long compared to most lab animals. If I understand the paper correctly, especially the studies of the Hiroshima and Nakasaki survivors show that you only start seeing the effects of low doses in those studies in a statistical significant way over many decades. They argue that the next twenty years will still add valuable data as we now see the children of those events enter old age. That means that to study the effects of low doses in a meaningful way, you need to run your experiment for a hundred years. I don't think that's generally done with lab animals or cellular level experiments.
The article seems to show that only since about 1980 is the data on the A-bomb survivors showing statistically significant numbers at the lower end of the exposure scale, even with the 80.000 or so people in the study.
I think replicating that kind of scale and duration isn't feasible in lab experiments, so then epidemiology is your only source of data.
NAS with TimeMachine support on the home network and WiFi and RAID 1 disks and an rsync script to a remote location. Once configured it's completely painless and doesn't even require you to plug anything in or sit at a certain location, so it's ideal for laptops.
I've got several Macbooks and found that having TimeMachine across WiFi to a NAS (with RAID) means that the backups happen much more regularly, as the Macbooks are often used roaming. All modern NAS solutions support TimeMachine AFAIK, but I know at least the QNAP stuff does as that's what I use. Then you only need the NAS to have a cron job running (most use some form of embedded Linux), to move stuff off-site. Me and a friend rsync to each other although it's not ideal for TM backups you can have it set up to run in the middle of the night or when you're at work and it gives an additional measure.
But I haven't had a any catastrophic failure since I started to use TM, so except for getting back the occasional file, I haven't had to rely on it. Especially the off site thing I do with that friend, but that would only be needed in the case my house burns down, or my NAS gets stolen or something like that. The thing with backups is that they secure against things that you hope will never happen.
Yeah. TimeMachine is awesome. And nowadays most NAS and other storage solutions support it.
It's only saved me from my own stupidity so far. I haven't had catastrophic hardware failure that required a recovery yet. but my previous backup strategies on Windows and Linux were too cumbersome and thus often didn't happen regularly. I have lost things due to that in the past.
TimeMachine is one of the main reasons I use Macs for work.
Better plan: Place a honeypot "screamer" device that sends its GPS location every 30 seconds to a server that you control. Let the thief lead you to *his* lair.
And then? I don't think the police will see it as enough evidence to go raid the place. There was a case a while back with a stolen iPad that was tracked to a certain location, but it wasn't enough for the police because the accuracy isn't there in GPS to make sure you've got the right house.
I think you have two problems with your setup: 1) They're already inside, and you're now dependent on your "evidence" and ability of the police to get your stuff back. 2) If it's really screaming "steal me", especially if it's visible from outside, then you're inviting them in.
I think the dog and having visible cameras outside, which both will work as a deterrent, is a better idea.
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My iPhone 3GS is 3 years old and running iOS 5. It will also be supported by iOS 6. I don't know of a single Android phone that's over a year old that has a supported upgrade to ICS. All 3 year old Android phones are still on 1.x, except the HTC Hero, which is on 2.1, with cyanogen it manages 2.2.
Sure there are outdates iPhones, but over 80% is running the latest iOS. Most Android users couldn't even upgrade if they wanted to, only phones from mid-2011 support ICS.
Show me any phone from 2009 or even 2010 that runs ICS.
What I see around me, is that most Android users don't pay for a lot of their apps, "sharing" them with their friends, while for iOS your basic option is to buy the app.
I think the major reason that even popular Android apps don't sell nearly as well as their iOS counterparts, is that it's much easier to pirate Android apps.
In return for paying for their apps, iOS users get two things:
- More and better quality apps, as developers like getting paid.
- Long term support for their apps, as they get upgrades as the developers keep investing their earnings.*
* My 3 year old iPhone can also run the latest iOS and apps, there is little fragmentation.
There is a reason why Apple cuts off support for their older versions of iPhone folks, its because they would run like crap with the latest version of iOS installed.
My iPhone 3GS is over 3 years old. It runs the latest version of iOS 5 and rumours are that iOS 6 will also support it.
This is a phone from when Android was on version 1.5. It's about as old as the HTC Hero, which didn't get any official updates after Android 2.1. CyanogenMod can get 2.2 on it, or a rather unstable 2.3.
Other similar age Android phones (Samsung Galaxy I7500), never even got an upgrade to the 2.x series.
My 3 year old iPhone is still getting OS updates, and looks to be good even for the next major upgrade. The comparable HTC Hero (which I also looked at when I shopped around 3 years ago) didn't get an official update since mid 2010, almost 2 years ago.
I still use it every day and it's battery lasts for 3 days, 2 if I use it heavily.
If what you say is even true for Samsung and HTC, unless you want to label them CCC as well, then I think what you say is true for all Adroid phone manufacturers.
Googling around, I think the oldest phones running ICS are the mid-2011 Sony devices. Prove me wrong, tell me which Adroid phone from 2009 or even 2010 has a supported update to android 4.x.
Believe it or not all of those kids are actually different. Some of them would probably thrive in Montessori schools learning higher order thinking skills (lower case since using HOTS is apparently trolling). They might go on to found Amazon and Google and become global leaders.
Some kids will be lucky to manage memorizing crap for 12 years, make it out with a diploma, and find a high paying career in factory work, burger flipping or roughnecking.
Your comparison is very flawed. Higher order thinking is about challenging the student. For Sergei Brin to figure out a new search algorithm is as much a challenge as figuring out in what order to cut down a corpse of trees is for a lumberjack.
Teaching higher order thinking should not be for a few lucky ones going to the right elite schools. It should be applied to teaching in general, adjusted to the level of the student. What is a challenge for one could be trivial for someone else.
As posted by docmordin:
F. M. Newman ("Higher order thinking in teaching social studies: A rationale for the assessment of classroom thoughtfulness", Journal of Curriculum Studies, vol. 22, 41-56, 1990) defined higher- and lower-order thinking, in virtually the same manner as Maier, based upon observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers and department chairs. That is, lower-order thinking demands only routine or mechanical application of previously acquired information, e.g., inserting numbers into established formulas or regurgitating lists of facts. On the other hand, higher-order thinking "challenges the student to interpret, analyze, or manipulate information". Furthermore, he pointed out that since individuals differ in the kinds of problems they find challenging, higher-order thinking is relative: what one person finds challenging another may find elementary; as such, to determine the extent to which the individual is involved in higher-order thinking, one would presumably need to know something about that individual's background.
Nice link.
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It's the only FORTRAN I really know, as it lets the compiler figure out what's wrong with the program I'm having trouble with.
It's the graphics artists and PR departments that are used to handling printed materials that I think are really to blame here. There are a lot of webpages out there that try to look like a page in a magazine. And usually at the cost of usability and ease of navigation.
I have experiences where big enterprise java program would only run on very specific java versions. e.g. 1.5.1 r16 would work, but 1.5.1 r17 would break things.
It is a major pain with everything trying to auto-update nowadays.
PrimaVera time/project management tools.
They even broke when I applied a security patch to java, let alone a real upgrade.
On Windows the program is allowing some variance in the java version, on Linux and OSX there is usually only one version that works. And with that I mean something like 1.5.1 r16 with 1.5.1 r17 breaking everything.
I never use Spotlight. I've got 24 applications on the Dock, and the Application Folder. I still occasionally use Finder -> Applications as well.
Exactly. The inability to organize the Start Menu in a sensible way in win7 was the real problem.
I've never used Win8 and certainly not Metro. My guess would be Ctrl-Atl-Del then Ctrl-C then Ctrl-F4 then Alt-F4 and if none of those would work I would be lost and use the power button on the PC.
Tell me what is the answer and would any of the above work?
Ah. So it basically works like the OSX dock?
I would have to say that the majority of computer users use a CLI on a regular basis, whether it be a video game or a chat program.
The question isn't if they can adjust to a CLI, it is knowing the commands that is the hard part.
This is the problem of the CLI. I use the Linux and OSX CLI on a daily basis. But I still often have to hit google first, because I know "there is a command that does ..." but I don't remember the name because it was half a year or more since I used it.
I use Windows, Linux* and OSX on a daily basis, at work, where I need to get stuff done and don't have time to tinker. OSX wins hands down on just letting me do my work and not claiming any of my time. I've use each of these at least since the mid-nineties.
* SuSE with KDE and Ubuntu with Unity
This is still the essential reason. The lack of applications. It's just as much true in the desktop OS market as it is in the smartphone OS market and one of the things that could really hurt MS in their move to windows 8.
You can have quite a few bad user interface ideas (See lot's of things from MS, OSS and some from Apple) and keep your user base. but you need the applications to get the users. If you want to help Linux gain ground, Wine is where you should focus your efforts.
Geophysics has needs for those skills, especially in the oil industry.
Next to that there are some smaller niches, like radio astronomy*, modelling of metals (engine manufacturers and such).
*) Might I suggest looking into the SKA and DOME projects.
I don't think Bitcoin will work in the long run. The main reason is that it's designed to be limited to a fixed amount. This leads to three problems:
1) And financial transaction that requires interest is a problem. Anything from a business loan to a mortgage is basically impossible in a fixed money supply.
2) Assuming the economy grows, there would be deflation, which will mean people try to hoard their bitcoins instead of spending them. This in turn increases the deflation.
3) Related to the first two points: One person can over time become the owner of all bitcoins if this person has a sizeable initial stack of bitcoins, and lends them out at interest, and keeps spending well below the gained interest, you end up gaining a larger and larger share of the total bitcoin supply.
These effects feed into each other, enforcing the effects and if kept unchecked will lead to a situation where a few players own the vast majority of the bitcoin supply. The pool of bitcoins not in their hands will dwindle as more and more of it is paid as interest to the large lenders, given continuous deflation and ultimately concludes in a credit crunch of epic proportions.
A successful bitcoin is a setup for a major economic disaster, a failed bitcoin can be ignored. I choose the second option because I think the first one would create problems much bigger than the economy has now.
To me it sounds like sufficient reason to have the hospitals fail the performance review, something along the lines of "lack of accurate time keeping".
I think that you can't make the assumption that a system where the clock is off, hasn't drifted significantly over the past 6 months. The fact that the clock is off, is probably by itself enough reason to suspect that there is significant clock drift. If you make that assumption, your report is based on bogus data as far as I'm concerned. I would throw the entire report out based on that.
Now if you knew how much the systems were off at the start of the 6 month period and how much they were off at the end of the period, then you have at least a first order approximation of the drift and know it's range over the studied period. Then you can at least estimate the size of your errors. Measuring the clock drift afterwards isn't going to be good enough as it often depends on the age of the machine, ambient temperature and possibly other effects.
With one data point you have no idea about how big the error is you're making. You could be off by 30 minutes or more easily, which is very significant for the case you're describing.
I think one of the reasons to still study humans, is that we live very long compared to most lab animals. If I understand the paper correctly, especially the studies of the Hiroshima and Nakasaki survivors show that you only start seeing the effects of low doses in those studies in a statistical significant way over many decades. They argue that the next twenty years will still add valuable data as we now see the children of those events enter old age. That means that to study the effects of low doses in a meaningful way, you need to run your experiment for a hundred years. I don't think that's generally done with lab animals or cellular level experiments.
The article seems to show that only since about 1980 is the data on the A-bomb survivors showing statistically significant numbers at the lower end of the exposure scale, even with the 80.000 or so people in the study.
I think replicating that kind of scale and duration isn't feasible in lab experiments, so then epidemiology is your only source of data.
NAS with TimeMachine support on the home network and WiFi and RAID 1 disks and an rsync script to a remote location. Once configured it's completely painless and doesn't even require you to plug anything in or sit at a certain location, so it's ideal for laptops.
I've got several Macbooks and found that having TimeMachine across WiFi to a NAS (with RAID) means that the backups happen much more regularly, as the Macbooks are often used roaming. All modern NAS solutions support TimeMachine AFAIK, but I know at least the QNAP stuff does as that's what I use. Then you only need the NAS to have a cron job running (most use some form of embedded Linux), to move stuff off-site. Me and a friend rsync to each other although it's not ideal for TM backups you can have it set up to run in the middle of the night or when you're at work and it gives an additional measure.
But I haven't had a any catastrophic failure since I started to use TM, so except for getting back the occasional file, I haven't had to rely on it. Especially the off site thing I do with that friend, but that would only be needed in the case my house burns down, or my NAS gets stolen or something like that. The thing with backups is that they secure against things that you hope will never happen.
Yeah. TimeMachine is awesome. And nowadays most NAS and other storage solutions support it.
It's only saved me from my own stupidity so far. I haven't had catastrophic hardware failure that required a recovery yet. but my previous backup strategies on Windows and Linux were too cumbersome and thus often didn't happen regularly. I have lost things due to that in the past.
TimeMachine is one of the main reasons I use Macs for work.
Better plan: Place a honeypot "screamer" device that sends its GPS location every 30 seconds to a server that you control. Let the thief lead you to *his* lair.
And then? I don't think the police will see it as enough evidence to go raid the place. There was a case a while back with a stolen iPad that was tracked to a certain location, but it wasn't enough for the police because the accuracy isn't there in GPS to make sure you've got the right house.
I think you have two problems with your setup:
1) They're already inside, and you're now dependent on your "evidence" and ability of the police to get your stuff back.
2) If it's really screaming "steal me", especially if it's visible from outside, then you're inviting them in.
I think the dog and having visible cameras outside, which both will work as a deterrent, is a better idea.