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Why is there a place to vote for the article or an article to vote for? Am I missing some tech viewer?
Yeah, no idea what happened with this. I'm also having an issue with the seeding window not redirecting to newsvine, and the doppleganger's red banner also not redirecting to the duplicate seed... in both cases the seeding window is simply closing with no redirection to newsvine. I've filed two unanswered bug reports over the last week about that. Waiting to hear it's been fixed or is being looked into.
At least now I know its not due to my lack of cyber-skills! :~)
Same here. At Calvin's column, this has zero vote? And where is the article text?
I left the vote out intentionally. I was using this as an example of a free-form discussion topic. I guess it failed miserably b/c no one is discussing the topic, LOL!
I have been a teacher of sorts and technology has changed the way we have taught in the passed 20 years. We use to use a tape player on speech learning and flash cards now it is done ditial and video. Loop tapes are a thing of the past. In ice skating we would use props for kids now we have low voltage solar drives on the ice for the kids. In music we had 4 stations to choose from today the world 108 stations. In engineering safety we would use box ideas and now we can go into the field and see what happens to your mistakes. In Nanfang hunan, China We taught 600 kids to speak english using GLUE and LAMP systems with modern Eletronics of the 777 boeing Jobs. Yes We are a technocracy. Keep at it we are the new age where sci and rel. are becoming one. Thank you for the site Blake
IT is a field that has seen and will continue to see significant changes in short time periods. For some people, this is exciting, and for others, it's annoying or terrifying. I tend to be a late adopter for most technologies because I'm poor and I want to see which way the market goes before I buy something, so I tend more toward feeling that it is annoying, but still, the overall progress is a good thing - DVDs are better than VHS, and on-demand downloads will be better than DVDs, etc.
For individuals in IT, there are interesting and exciting opportunities to learn about and be part of rolling out new technologies. However, a LOT of IT jobs still involve helping morons ("Did you check to see if it's turned on?") or helping your company's Big Brother to find who's looking at dirty pictures on their office computer. Not exactly my cup of tea.
Oh, my goodness! Where to start? IT/IO has the look and feel of broadcast. Little better than a film strip. What's next? Viewgraphs?
Yet again, there is little in the way of a discussion of the "information" part of IT and the use of technology to capture, hyper-organize (un-organized information isn't information - it's data), and present information. But the technology in this "new" site is dull and with the exception of this comment section one-way. IO? Hard-ly!
Remember that the business of technology is not paramount where technologists live. It is important, but secondary.
Why not do a little shibboleth piercing and look critically at some of the mainstays of 21st century IT - like SOA, low level languages masquerading as high level languages, the myth of "standards", the challenge of producing the tools that users want?
Why do 10gHz machines run software so slowly? What is wrong with the tech picture?
I know it's target audience is mainstream MSNBC viewers, but really, now...
We are in a time of defining the standards for the next 15 years. SOA is exposing data from across the globe.
Software Development is focused on scalability and ease extensibility through configuration.
Mass collaboration is a growing trend with blogging and micro-blogging technologies popping up as a result of the Web 2.0 boom.
Hardware is no longer the bottleneck for data throughput. Virtualization is key! We want faster and more reliable access. We want machines to be smaller, faster, and cheaper!
With the economy in the gutter it's the perfect time to make global changes.
Simple publicly available encryption seems to have done worlds for the tech world since the 80's