Posts by HollyX 34 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2010
I remember being handed the 1.0 two-floppy disks with a knowing 'you'll like this' from the physics department technician ... it's one of few games that actually gave me nightmares, lol.
There's nothing more tantalizing to a 16 year old girl than finding out you can shoot barrels next to people and reduce them to a set of spare ribs - a trick I repeated whenever possible >:-)
The only RM PCs I've seen arrive in the last 5 years (accross 85 schools) have been from the Tesco computers for schools programme.
It would appear there's a fair amount of mis-advice still circulating outside of this authority; as resources dwindle I'm hoping FOSS will get a foothold to get more value from old PCs and school advisors will pull their hands out of RM's arse.
Up was fab in 3D, I've also seen and enjoyed Avatar (a lot).
It didn't give me any nausea or headaches and added a lot to the moviegoing experience. However, just like any other use of technology, it needs to be tempered to what people want - both in terms of the experience and the cost - and Hollywood doesn't have a stellar track record in that respect.
Dear Jane, if you're going to politically spin your reporting it could at least be done with subtlety. This is insulting to your readership, you may as well have written "The Lib Dems are stinky poo poo heads" and left it at that.
I plan to be voting LibDem simply because they seem the least evil of the (realistic) candidates and if this sickly Pro-Tory torrent of reporting continues I'll vote with my feet in terms of Tech news, too.
Yes, the idea of an archive is a good thing. Google, however, are using other people's work for profit and market domination. They wish to set the market value, too.
It's not like there isn't an alternative, the article mentions another book archiver with loftier goals and better integrity.
... their support is equal to every large manufacturer?
Also, I don't see how no third party support or accessories will work - we have about 50 EeePC 1005s so far and about 300 of various older models, no problems with support or accessories so far. Same with the 200 Samsung netbooks and some other odd ones like Dell and Advent, too.
Other netbooks come with the same sort of support which is why everything we have comes under a fix-or-replace 3rd party hardware cover policy.
Google Streetview is repeatable; someone you know happening to see you becomes word of mouth but if it's on Streetview it can be called up time and again.
Streetview can allow the cross-referencing of address with the image being displayed whereas a chance appearance in a photograph may be tricky to pinpoint in an area the observer is unfamiliar with.
Streetview is available to the public, so not only can the anonymous spooks or powers that be see it, but everyone else can as well, thus opening a far wider window of viewers.
Now the question is do you trust Google to decide what is or is not appropriate to photograph or what is or is not an unethical activity? Does someone in the closet or secretly having a smoke or whatever have the right to choose to not be recorded by this system in light of these three differences over traditional media? If they have that right then consequently it should not be used as one cannot successfully selectively censor such a large system.
This might be kinda useful, if they were to lift the 10 client limit.
LSTP is good if you have a knowledgeable sysadmin to take care of it (and be a Linux cheerleader, train staff, not be put off by people decrying it, etc). Knowledgeable sysadmins are hard to come by - especially around LEAs with entrenched MS-itis ... there are schools who still buy PCs from RM *shudder*
As for Mighty Mouse, all the teachers I work with are more than happy with Smartboard's Notebook software and don't want to learn another new program. For many, changing the order of icons on the desktop is confusing ...
In front of me now I have a Nokia, it cost £17 in Netto and replaced my work phone a couple of years back. It came with a T-mobile pre-pay sim (which never got used) but wasn't network locked either.
I don't fancy a smart phone either, the charge on this thing lasts 5 days and it's small and light :-) It has a colour screen, to boot!
Sorry, but my EeePC is small enough to fit in my handbag and quick enough to do all my home computing. If I use your logic then nobody has any need for any Apple product because they don't make anything that suits me.
Now, on topic, Eeebuntu LXDE is the way to go, complete with OpenOffice by default ;-)
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