The Pitfalls of Annual Testing
Critical of standardized testing, this article suggests that U.S. government funding for a recently aanounced testing program will create nothing more than 'bubble punching' tests and dubious learning materials. More...
Analysis: 20 Factors That Will Change PCs in 2002
This is a pretty good list. Some of the factors will be familiar to readers of OLDaily: instant messaging, wireless 802.11 networks, XML schemas, voice portals and distributed netowrks. More...
Checking for Plug-ins
Online courses increasingly require the use of plug-ins such as Flash. The browser tries to help, but unless your reader is an experienced internet user, the browser help doesn't do a lot. More...
RottaFlekti
Some people just have too much time on their hands - both the author of this item, who created it over the summer, the SlashDot member, who found it over the holidays, and the author again, who translated it into English last week. More...
DotGNU Portable.NET
Rhys Weatherley's Southern Storm Software, of Brisbane, Australia, is well known in the open source movement for being a "dotGNU's one-man army." So it is no surprise to learn that his latest project now stands at a quarter million lines of code. More...
By Their Clothes Ye Shall Know Them
Heh... seems true to me: people tend to remember what their professors wore more than they remember what their professors said. Thankfully, what their professors wore spoke volumes. More...
Ogg Streaming
The BBC is testing Ogg Vorbis audio streams. If you're like me, you've never heard of Ogg Vorbis before. You may hear more about it, though: Ogg Vorbis is a open, free audio codec (a codec is a system for coding audio signals for transfer over the iternet). More...
Trying to Keep Young Internet Users From a Life of Piracy
Follow-up on the recent raids on university campuses. The staid New York Times - not to mention staid professors - ought to know better than to perpetuate this sort of hype. Arguments like this - "If you're willing to bootleg music, you're willing to bootleg anything" - are clearly fallacious, as is the link between people trading music online and large software pirates, as is the estimate that a third of all business software in use today is pirated. More...
2001 Was a Tough Read for E-Books
By all accounts, 2001 wasn't a very good year for eBooks. But that's where the agreement ends. This article surveys a variety of opinions from writers and publishers on the topic and it is evident that there is still a large gap between opinions on how - or even whether - eBooks should be implemented. More...
User Payments: Predictions for 2001 Revisited
I don't know... what would you think if it cost you money everytime you read OLDaily? What would you think if it cost you one cent and the amount was automatically added to your ISP bill at the end of the month. More...
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