Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 27 2013 @ 03:57 PM EST |
"On Thursday I wrote a piece about MacWrite and MacPaint,
two pieces of
software that influenced much if not all the
software that followed. There are
many other examples of
seminal software products. In most cases, the products
are
not the first of its kind, as MacWrite was not the first
word processor,
but for whatever reason, put enough of the
pieces together to lead the way to
the future. It's not
always obvious in the moment, but with the benefit of
hindsight we can see". link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 27 2013 @ 04:14 PM EST |
Bill Gates has spent $50 million for a three year project
known as the MET
(Measures of Effective Teaching) project.
They just concluded the
study and released a final report
which can be found here. In the final report
they conclude
that teacher evaluations have an ideal weighting of 33%
value-added, 33% principal observations, and 33% student
surveys.
They justify the 33% value-added because they have analyzed
the data and found, contrary to everyone else’s analysis of
similar data, that
teachers DO have similar value-added
scores from one year to the next. To
prove their point,
they print on page 8 this very compelling set of
graphs.
It seems like the point of this ‘research’ is to simply
‘prove’ that Gates was right about what he expected to be
true. He hired some
pretty famous economists, people who
certainly know enough about math to know
that their
conclusions are invalid. link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 12:37 AM EST |
Exploiting printers via Jetdirect vulnerabilities
Whoops: Google indexes more than 86,000 HP 'public'
printers
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 07:29 AM EST |
Enjoy.
XKCD
Webcomic
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 07:44 AM EST |
Google is now indexing HP Printers. Want to find one? Click on the link
below.
inurl:hp/device/this.LCDispatch
er?nav=hp.Print
Looks like some SysAdmins have messed up their
settings :)
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: JamesK on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 10:05 AM EST |
There's a new major version of open-source LibreOffice office
suite on its way, but developers, not end-users, will be the ones who will
notice the real changes. --- The following program contains immature
subject matter.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 11:14 AM EST |
link
Acer CEO says Windows 8 didn't ignite
PC
market growth so it's not successful. Perhaps the PC market
has changed
permanently and it's a strategic error to bet on
Windows home runs going
forward.
The author of the article, Larry Dignan, Editor in
Chief
of ZDNet, draws an illogical conclusion...
Acer is
going to have to become more than a
strong Microsoft partner akin to Lenovo,
which worked a
strategy to grow emerging markets and protect mature ones
whether Windows was dominant or not.
Wasn't it Albert
Einstein who defined 'Insanity' as doing
the same thing over and over again and
expecting different
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Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 03:02 PM EST |
Quote:
Wong said that the majority of buyers have been educational
institutions and corporations that have been drawn to the
units by their low cost and security features. Microsoft
can't yet compete with Chromebooks on price since both
Windows 8 and Windows RT carry high licensing costs, and
Wong wasn't uncertain in calling out Microsoft's slow start.
"Windows 8 itself is still not successful," said Wong, "the
whole market didn’t come back to growth after the Windows 8
launch, that’s a simple way to judge if it is successful or
not."
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 03:12 PM EST |
The section in the so-called Foreign Intelligence Amendments Act
(FISAAA) grants the US government sweeping powers to collect foreign
intelligence information stored in US Cloud computing providers like Amazon or
Google.
The article specifically states the US Attorney General and the
Director of National Intelligence may authorise jointly, for a period of up to
one year from the effective date of the authorisation, the targeting of persons
reasonably believed to be located outside the United States to acquire foreign
intelligence information.
Nikolaj Nielsen, EUobserver[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Is that wise? - Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 05:52 AM EST
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