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Sabtu, 07 Mei 2011
Rabu, 05 Januari 2011
The eBerry Computer Is Too Costly for Indian Students
The new computer aimed at "poor" Indian students will not be successful. It is like the current craze for eBooks - why buy a machine that is built mainly for reading copies of the written page when you can buy a normal computer for a little bit more? eBooks and the student computer will end up in the bin in time.
Few students will be able to buy the new eBerry laptop because it is too expensive. It comes with a package of student related software. The manufacturer says it will be fun to use a "virtual classroom". Yes, it can also fun playing games on your computer after doing your homework. Another problem is that the eBerry locks you into homework mode. Only teachers and parents will have the password to access the Internet per se.
At $811 it is an incredibly high price for third world consumers. Openwiis in the Netherlands offers a much cheaper alternative. It provides computers to children in developing countries and it doesn't seek a profit. People buy a computer and another one is given to a needy child.
Few students will be able to buy the new eBerry laptop because it is too expensive. It comes with a package of student related software. The manufacturer says it will be fun to use a "virtual classroom". Yes, it can also fun playing games on your computer after doing your homework. Another problem is that the eBerry locks you into homework mode. Only teachers and parents will have the password to access the Internet per se.
At $811 it is an incredibly high price for third world consumers. Openwiis in the Netherlands offers a much cheaper alternative. It provides computers to children in developing countries and it doesn't seek a profit. People buy a computer and another one is given to a needy child.
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Jumat, 08 Oktober 2010
Internet TV Really Hasn't Arrived
Google launches Internet TV. It is here, but will it be successful. Until broadband is readily available to every one it will not be commonplace. Everyone knows that if you play low band radio on your computer while you do program work how the usage rate goes through the roof and you are quickly exceed your broadband limit. For high definition movies the download width will be astronomical. Only those lucky few in the very center of major cities will be able to use the system. The great majority like the dial-up users in the outback will look on in envy.
Even Internet radio with a dedicated radio has been a dead loss. It hasn't taken off. The download requirements are just too high. Where are the virtual reality computer systems today? They have been forgotten. It seems 3D will go the same way. Using your smartphone to control Internet TV is a gimmick. You may as well have a proper controller. This won't keep people's attention.
A lot of new technology is out there but without the infrustructure it will rot on the vine. I am waiting for Telstra to provide me with a 8000 kpbs broadband service. After much apology on their part they have had to give up. I knew it couldn't be done because my old provider couldn't do it. Telstra is in a bind now. With my intention to take them to the Communications Ombudsmand and ACCC for false advertising they are stuck. Selling an 8000 service that runs at a maximum of 3000 is just not on. The tranfer rate of 426 is sufficient they say. It may be sufficient for them but it is robbery to me. No, I will stick to my guns and take them all they way to get change in the communications sector.
Even Internet radio with a dedicated radio has been a dead loss. It hasn't taken off. The download requirements are just too high. Where are the virtual reality computer systems today? They have been forgotten. It seems 3D will go the same way. Using your smartphone to control Internet TV is a gimmick. You may as well have a proper controller. This won't keep people's attention.
A lot of new technology is out there but without the infrustructure it will rot on the vine. I am waiting for Telstra to provide me with a 8000 kpbs broadband service. After much apology on their part they have had to give up. I knew it couldn't be done because my old provider couldn't do it. Telstra is in a bind now. With my intention to take them to the Communications Ombudsmand and ACCC for false advertising they are stuck. Selling an 8000 service that runs at a maximum of 3000 is just not on. The tranfer rate of 426 is sufficient they say. It may be sufficient for them but it is robbery to me. No, I will stick to my guns and take them all they way to get change in the communications sector.
Kamis, 02 September 2010
Senin, 30 Agustus 2010
Microsoft Is Being Greedy by Charging Charities
Use Microsoft and pay an arm and a leg - well maybe not quite. Schools using Microsoft software have always enjoyed a discount on the number of copies they use for teaching purposes. Until recently charities also used the Academic Open licence. Microsoft got tough on them and shut them out of the cheap licencing system. An Australian charity negotiated with Microsoft and got a good deal paying only 40 percent of the full rate. Seventeen charities now enjoy this benefit.
It pays to negotiate individually. Anglicare Tasmania got an even larger discount. So much pressure was brought to bear that other charities were allowed back onto the new Charity Open licence which is very cheap indeed. Microsoft is still playing a waiting game keeping charities that do not make a challenge on the full enterprise rate.
Let's face it. Microsoft is too greedy. It has the market to itself and governments need to legislate to override international trading laws. It is a monopoly and should be controlled accordingly. Before discounting Microsoft demands $150,000 up front. this is a strong arm tactic. Some countries protect consumers from finance company demands when they cannot pay a loan on time. There should be similar protection laws from Microsoft. Some charities are moving to Red Hat software. They shouldn't have to do this.
It pays to negotiate individually. Anglicare Tasmania got an even larger discount. So much pressure was brought to bear that other charities were allowed back onto the new Charity Open licence which is very cheap indeed. Microsoft is still playing a waiting game keeping charities that do not make a challenge on the full enterprise rate.
Let's face it. Microsoft is too greedy. It has the market to itself and governments need to legislate to override international trading laws. It is a monopoly and should be controlled accordingly. Before discounting Microsoft demands $150,000 up front. this is a strong arm tactic. Some countries protect consumers from finance company demands when they cannot pay a loan on time. There should be similar protection laws from Microsoft. Some charities are moving to Red Hat software. They shouldn't have to do this.
Kamis, 12 Agustus 2010
Getting Sound from Computer Speakers from the Microphone
If you want your computer microphone to play sound through the computer speakers you can try techarena.
However, if you have a newer version of sound software this may not work. I have a Dell computer with Realtek sound software. I tried following the instructions on the above site but my software doesn't have an "options" tab.
There is a way:
1. Go to the Start menu and enter "regedit" in the start search window.
3. Navigate through the registry by using the folder + signs in the left pane to get to this location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Cl ass\{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000\Settings\
7. Right click on "ForceDisableJD".
8. Left click "Modify".
9. In the 'Value data' box, add 01 to the existing 0000 to make it "0000 01". If you have "0000 00" change it to "0000 01" then click OK.
10. Exit the Registry and restart the computer.
11. After restart, right click the sound program tray icon. Left click "Audio Devices". Right click "Speakers". Left click "Properties". Left click "levels" tab. Move "Microphone" and "FrontMic" markers to the right on the slide control.
12. Click "OK".
You are ready to speak into the microphone and hear the sound from the computer speakers.
Turn up the volume and away you go.
Happy computing.
There is a way:
1. Go to the Start menu and enter "regedit" in the start search window.
3. Navigate through the registry by using the folder + signs in the left pane to get to this location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Cl ass\{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000\Settings\
7. Right click on "ForceDisableJD".
8. Left click "Modify".
9. In the 'Value data' box, add 01 to the existing 0000 to make it "0000 01". If you have "0000 00" change it to "0000 01" then click OK.
10. Exit the Registry and restart the computer.
11. After restart, right click the sound program tray icon. Left click "Audio Devices". Right click "Speakers". Left click "Properties". Left click "levels" tab. Move "Microphone" and "FrontMic" markers to the right on the slide control.
12. Click "OK".
You are ready to speak into the microphone and hear the sound from the computer speakers.
Turn up the volume and away you go.
Happy computing.
Sabtu, 17 Juli 2010
Minggu, 11 Juli 2010
Sabtu, 03 Juli 2010
Australia's New Broadband Is Launched
Tasmania turns the new broadband network on. Well the initial phase has been hooked up and is working. The project is going to be a vast enterprise with optical fiber being laid in place of copper. It will offer consumers video streaming that is 100 times faster than at present. The difference will seem magical to most people.
Hopefully and I mean hopefully it will be no more expensive than existing services. The Government has promised that it will be cheaper, a miserly $29.95 a month. Time will tell on the price. The service is being set up as a virtual non-profit business, a public system aiming for only 6 percent profit.
Apparently, e-health is coming to Australia. Patients will be monitored from home. In the Us such a system has resulted in hospital admissions being cut by 60 percent. Sick children will receive schooling direct to their sick bed. Buildings will become 'alive' with remote monitoring cutting power bills. Traffic lights will be synchronized. Mobile connectivity to broadband will be everywhere.
Unlike Japan and South Korea who have led the charge to broadband via subsidies, Australia's system will not be solely privately operated. The Australian Government will have control. Mind you, most consumers will have to wait for many years to get online, up to eight years for those in the outback.
Hopefully and I mean hopefully it will be no more expensive than existing services. The Government has promised that it will be cheaper, a miserly $29.95 a month. Time will tell on the price. The service is being set up as a virtual non-profit business, a public system aiming for only 6 percent profit.
Apparently, e-health is coming to Australia. Patients will be monitored from home. In the Us such a system has resulted in hospital admissions being cut by 60 percent. Sick children will receive schooling direct to their sick bed. Buildings will become 'alive' with remote monitoring cutting power bills. Traffic lights will be synchronized. Mobile connectivity to broadband will be everywhere.
Unlike Japan and South Korea who have led the charge to broadband via subsidies, Australia's system will not be solely privately operated. The Australian Government will have control. Mind you, most consumers will have to wait for many years to get online, up to eight years for those in the outback.
Sabtu, 03 April 2010
Kamis, 04 Maret 2010
If You Sit Down You Die
Humans are built to stand up all the time. How ridiculous this sounds, but this is what scientists say. You will die younger, get diabetes, and fall victim to cancer if you sit down too much. Doing exercise wont stop it apparently. Even sitting down at any time is damaging. This is "silly science" because though people sit down longer than ever before they also live longer. Statistics prove this.
Scientists say the body only functions "normally" if we are standing. They cease if we sit down. If these body operations work when we are standing what proof is there that they are really necessary? There is no proof. This is just a whim and let's hope it soon passes before people bring cases to court against employers.
There is no more ardent a person against smoking than an ex-smoker. Guess What! The main researcher on all this stuff, Professor Levine, has taken to standing all the time. This bloke is a bit of a nutcase, an obsessive compulsive if there is one - he walks around the room like in the old movies with an almighty long telephone cord. He also invented machines where you can keep walking or cycle while still using a computer. Health and safety has deemed these device too dangerous to use.
Levine wants to change the world like all obsessives. "What you need to do is to create an overall environment of health." Yeah, like those people selling ordinary tea that supposedly makes you lose weight. Beware, the Professor has four large US companies on board to find out how much can be saved in dollars by walking around all the time. You could be next on the test list.
Scientists say the body only functions "normally" if we are standing. They cease if we sit down. If these body operations work when we are standing what proof is there that they are really necessary? There is no proof. This is just a whim and let's hope it soon passes before people bring cases to court against employers.
There is no more ardent a person against smoking than an ex-smoker. Guess What! The main researcher on all this stuff, Professor Levine, has taken to standing all the time. This bloke is a bit of a nutcase, an obsessive compulsive if there is one - he walks around the room like in the old movies with an almighty long telephone cord. He also invented machines where you can keep walking or cycle while still using a computer. Health and safety has deemed these device too dangerous to use.
Levine wants to change the world like all obsessives. "What you need to do is to create an overall environment of health." Yeah, like those people selling ordinary tea that supposedly makes you lose weight. Beware, the Professor has four large US companies on board to find out how much can be saved in dollars by walking around all the time. You could be next on the test list.
Rabu, 10 Februari 2010
Minggu, 31 Januari 2010
Schools Charge for "Free" Computers
When schools got new computers for their student the last thing you think would happen would be school charging a fee to use them. But this is what has occurred. What are the schools thinking of? A public school is asking parents to buy the computers for $1200. Another is trying to lease them for $1400. It boils down to a technicality. Schools are saying computers must be left at school. There will a charge if they want to take them home.
The ridiculous thing is after paying for a computer a student will still not actually own it. Computers will have to be taken back for use by other students. What a rip off. Over Years 9 to 12 a school will receive $1460. A good laptop can be purchased for $795 anywhere.
Just what is the Federal Government thinking of? It says schools can charge if they want to. Surely this negates the free computer promise. It wasn't voted in to do this. Education Minister Julia Gillard says Schools can arrange for home use as they see fit. The Government should have said providing computers was just a way of giving schools more funding because that is what has happened. Again children from poorer families lose out. It has brought further inequity with some states not charging.
The Labor Government is obviously in league with schools. It is trying to force parents to buy computers by making rental extremely high, so the Government will meet its target of every child having a computer by default.
The ridiculous thing is after paying for a computer a student will still not actually own it. Computers will have to be taken back for use by other students. What a rip off. Over Years 9 to 12 a school will receive $1460. A good laptop can be purchased for $795 anywhere.
Just what is the Federal Government thinking of? It says schools can charge if they want to. Surely this negates the free computer promise. It wasn't voted in to do this. Education Minister Julia Gillard says Schools can arrange for home use as they see fit. The Government should have said providing computers was just a way of giving schools more funding because that is what has happened. Again children from poorer families lose out. It has brought further inequity with some states not charging.
The Labor Government is obviously in league with schools. It is trying to force parents to buy computers by making rental extremely high, so the Government will meet its target of every child having a computer by default.
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