[opendtv] Re: Connected classrooms
- From: "Tom McMahon" <tlm@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "OpenDTV" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:46:23 +0000
I am constantly amazed. With the purchase of a new car with the CA DMV I am
presented with "renew" but not "New". When I finally find the form (why not
"New") I am presented with "Print" but it tells me that I need to send it in to
... where? When I finally find my zip code the printed hard copy form has
evaporated. What would Turing say? What humans test this software in real
life?
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From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:24:43
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Connected classrooms
Dan Grimes wrote:
> The Skype session we did yesterday was a bust. I had everything
> set up on my end but the other end (NPR in Washington D.C.)
> didn't have the bandwidth on their WiFi and couldn't give our
> professor an Ethernet connection. The result was choppy audio
> that was unintelligible. Of course, I can't blame Skype but
> what I can say is that it takes more than just two people with
> two laptops to make it work.
Hmmm. I find that close to inexcusable, what with professionals at both ends of
the link. All I can say is, as radio and TV go more IP and less one-way
broadcast, everyone involved will be much more familiar with the potential
problems, and more importantly, with implementing any required work-arounds
when problems occur.
I know that years ago, I'm talking 1980s, when we started using e-mail heavily
in my programs at work, one thing or another would often go down. It used to
make me irate, because of course, the telephone would never have been allowed
to be down as long as e-mail was back then, at times. But the situation soon
improved, as everyone started treating e-mail as a critical resource, instead
of some sort of hobby.
Same goes with Skype sessions or anything else. I've done numerous Skype
sessions. The biggest problems happened when we still had PCs that couldn't
quite hack the speed. Teething problems. To be expected. Not to be considered
the way it has to be for all time.
Bert
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